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...reached 65 last week. Reporters on the campaign trail offered application forms for Social Security and Medicare, and composed a ditty to the tune of California, Here I Come. Sample lyrics: "Senior citizens, I'm with you/ Guarantee my boodle too/ Voluntary, actuary, that's all bum/ Social Security here I come." Reagan, who is in fact a voluble critic of the current Social Security system and says he does not intend to claim the benefits for which he is now eligible, accepted the gibes with a crinkly smile...
...Though the Ford Administration valued at $32 million the military aid supplied by the CIA to anti-Soviet factions in Angola, the report charges that it was really worth much more. High Administration officials called the accusation a bum rap, insisting that .45-cal. pistols were valued as low as $5 apiece and .30-cal. semiautomatic carbines as low as $7.55 because they were World War II surplus, and have drastically depreciated...
...mouth loquacity of a kvetching cabbie, swarming with grim and gaudy figures who, says Mimi Gross, are true New Yorkers, being "nosy, curious and short." There is a gritty and lugubrious side to the Ruckus imagination. Some of the figures are gross ham-faced brutes; and the bum who presides over the entrance to Wall Street is a scarecrow fit to terrify children, a wadded mass of sacking perched on a cockeyed façade with nails bursting out of his chin for stubble...
...result many rural communities are often without the services of a doctor and are eager to accept anyone who is remotely qualified. That sometimes leaves them with a doctor who, as one critical observer says, is "a bum, an alcoholic or a drug addict-somebody...
Rocky, of course, loses, on points. But, the film asserts, he has really won. After it's over, he tells Adrian "I'm gonna know for the first time in my life that I'm not just another bum from the neighborhood." With Rocky everyone from every neighborhood should cheer. Only the unrealism of the American dream has died...