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William Hutton, executive director of the National Council of Senior Citizens, criticized the report for not mentioning the "millions of older people now hovering just above the poverty level." Said Cyril Brickfield, executive director of the 18 million-member American Association of Retired Persons: "If it was misleading in the 1960s to infer that all older persons were living in poverty, it is equally misleading today to imply they are generally affluent and living well...
Amid the chaos both sides claimed victory. President Reagan declared he was "pleased." Yet such advocates of the elderly as Cyril Brickfield, 62, executive director of the American Association of Retired Persons, and Maggie Kuhn, 76, founder of the Gray Panthers, called the 60-page conference report "a liberal document." In fact, the conference did endorse, albeit loosely, nearly all of the "eight for the '80s" goals proposed by a consortium of 25 elderly groups. Among the aims: more access to full-time and part-time work; home delivery of services rather than use of nursing facilities; an eventual...
...rising at a dizzying pace. One option that Administration officials say they are considering is to slow the rise in Social Security benefits by modifying the formula that ties those benefits to the Consumer Price Index. That brought an outburst that typified the inflation fighters' problems. Cyril Brickfield, head of the American Association of Retired Persons, wrote to President Carter that doing so would "cause millions of older people to suffer a severe reduction in their purchasing power...
...stands for $500 in gold which the banker is supposed to have in his bank. Each of the other five players is dealt 20 cards from a 100 card deck divided into ten suits. Each suit stands for an industry, such as Coal Mine, Brickfield, Wagon Works, Loom, Pottery, Saw Mill, etc. During the course of the game, the Banker attempts to buy from the players all the cards of all the suits. As soon as he can absorb one entire suit, or establish a monopoly in that industry, he can add that suit, or that industry, to the assets...
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