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...principle, the proposed "uncapping" of retirement age appears to deserve all the legislative momentum it has gathered in recent months. After all, as advocate for the elderly Rep. Claude Pepper (D-Fla.) has pointed out time and time again, discrimination on the basis of age is as indefensible as sexism or racism. Qualifications for a job should obviously be based on skill, not some arbitrary chronological distinction...
...Supermodel Christie Brinkley, and heir to the Moët & Chandon champagne fortune; by drowning, when his 1983 Ralt Formula Atlantic spun out of control at 100-plus m.p.h. during a practice run, careered off the track, exploded and sank in a nearby canal; in West Palm Beach, Fla...
Sometimes there are unexpected dividends. The Lawrences began exchanging Christmas cards with Duke Ellington (1956) and Egypt's President Nasser (six-time cover subject). Dan Austin, an academic administrator from Plantation, Fla., with almost 400 covers, found that his initial request to Hubert Humphrey (twelve-time cover subject) resulted in a warm, ongoing correspondence. And Kaminsky received a signed cover from William Holden (1956) two months after the actor died. Presumably, it had been cached among Holden's papers, then dutifully dispatched by his executors...
Spring Hill, Fla...
...klutz currently appearing in Martin Scorsese's film The King of Comedy, and recuperating from a coronary bypass; and Sandra Pitnick, 32, who met Lewis four years ago when she got a dancing part in his movie Hardly Working; both for the second time; in Key Biscayne, Fla...