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...ever sick either -they didn't dare be. Recalls one: "Boyd wouldn't recognize anything short of an amputation." Equally tireless away from work, Boyd over the years has run a program in the Catskills for neighboring kids as well as his own five children and seven grandchildren. He also skis, bicycles and teaches handicraft and square dancing...
...Waverly, Minn., reading and musing about the country's past or trolling for bass in the evening calm. If he could bring himself to announce to the world he loved Waverly so much that he was going to stay there and write and romp with his grandchildren, the clamor for him to be President might be overwhelming. He cannot do that...
...seems to derive from their being around at a point in the history of the family when it was possible to do the kind of study they had in mind. Their conduits to the Rockefeller family secrets were members of the alienated fourth generation of the dynasty, the great-grandchildren of the first John D. Rockefeller, the first members of the family who were not accustomed to being completely in control of the people around them. These Rockefeller Cousins apparently gave Collier and Horowitz access to parts of the vast family archives without trying, as their parents and grandparents...
...finally, in most cases, to prosperity. Here the stories fade, but you can still fill in the details-vacations in Florida, presidencies of ladies auxiliaries, retirement. The metamorphosis from rebellious young woman, clamoring for education, to the more familiar image of Jewish grandmother, gloating over snapshots of her grandchildren, seems complete. But no, not quite-many of these women, free at last, go back to school. Anuta Sharrow was the oldest student at Chicago Musical College; Ida Richter began to write novels; Katya Govsky earned a certificate to teach adult education. For some, it seems to be too late...
...result, Social Security has become not insurance, but what economists call an "intergenerational transfer program." Today's workers pay taxes to support yesterday's workers who are retired or disabled. In turn, today's workers must rely on the willingness of their children's and grandchildren's generations to continue to make this sort of transfer. Thus the trust fund is not, never has been, and never can be large enough to meet all potential claims on the system: that would require several trillion dollars. Its true purpose is to provide a cushion...