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Attitudes about saving differ strikingly between members of the baby-boom generation and their parents. Barton Goldberg of Delray Beach, Fla., a retired retailing executive, and his wife Rita recall saving a $1,800 nest egg in the 1950s on a salary of only $13,000 while living in New York City and rearing two children. When the family moved to Virginia, where living costs were much less, the Goldbergs were able to save nearly half of Barton's take-home pay. Says their daughter Jane Warden, 34: "My parents were very big bargain hunters. My mother would wait...
Thousands of Americans are now caught up in harvesting empties for profit. Charities, civic clubs and groups like the Boy Scouts regularly go at it. Since March, Dade County, Fla., fire fighters have picked enough cans to raise $4,990 for a burn center at James M. Jackson Memorial Hospital. On Chicago's South Side, some 20 neighborhood can pickers process more than 12,000 tons of scrap paper and metal each year at the Resource Center, one of the nation's largest nonprofit recycling operations. Ken Dunn, founder of the center, sees the collectors as successful entrepreneurs. Says...
...take Sam Hailey, by acclamation the champion can picker in Palm Beach County, Fla. In twelve years he has collected 944,000 cans and sold them for $10,000. Lately he has reined himself in; at 91 he no longer needs as much exercise as a doctor recommended in 1975 for treatment of a heart ailment...
Another member, Rep. Bill McCollum, (R-Fla.), said he disagrees with the committee's majority, which he said concluded in the report that while Reagan's political appointees made errors, the system of governing that Reagan set up was not to blame...
When Shere was 14, she became frustrated with her grandparents and joined an aunt and uncle in Daytona Beach, Fla. An intelligent and resilient child with a flair for music, she was a piano soloist at her baccalaureate ceremony at Daytona Beach's Seabreeze High School in 1960. With money supplied by her grandfather, she attended the University of Florida, where she earned bachelor's and master's degrees in history with honors...