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...Asphalt Jungle, The Dark Command), many of which he then honed into classic screenplays; in Santa Monica, Calif. A taste of Chicago-during the '20s gave Burnett a gritty sensibility that marked his work over half a century and provided memorable roles to such tough-guy stars as Humphrey Bogart (High Sierra) and Alan Ladd (This Gun for Hire). Not long ago, he observed of life: "You're going to have trouble and you die-that much you know. And there's not much else you do know...
...kinds of financial institutions to sign up for tax-sheltered Individual Retirement Accounts. The Fidelity Group of mutual funds in Boston has produced a slick color film about its IRAs that is now playing at workplaces that range from factory floors to coal mines. In Birmingham, Ala., the Robinson-Humphrey Co. brokerage firm rented a hotel ballroom to tell people of the virtues of IRAs. Western Federal Savings & Loan Association in Los Angeles calls its retirement plans "fat-cat accounts" and promotes them with posters, balloons and badges that depict a smirking feline figure even plumper than Garfield...
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.--A $1.1 million center for the study of world peace, named for Harold E. Stassen, will be established at the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs...
...pajamas with five stars on the lapels; Jimmy Durante's fedora and Henry Clay's boater; Teddy Roosevelt's Teddy bear; Mrs. Grover Cleveland's wedding-cake box; Abe Lincoln's frock coat; the chairs from the Kennedy-Nixon debate; Hubert Humphrey campaign cookies; Tom Seaver's college baseball uniform; waxed flowers from President Garfield's funeral; L.B.J FOR PRESIDENT lollipops in the shape of Texas; a swatch of material from the Red Baron's plane wing; a "Mr. Bones" skeleton puppet used in a vaudeville show; Jimmy Carter's hymn...
Ford's employees seem likely to make some concessions to the company. Says Walt Humphrey, a transmission worker at Ford's Louisville assembly plant: "I'm willing to show the American people that we are ready to sacrifice. It might swing them back to American products." GM workers, however, appear to be taking a harder line. Says Pete Kelly, a wood-model maker at the GM tech center in Warren, Mich., and a leader of dissident U.A.W. members: "If we give concessions now, they will automate that much faster and there will be more workers...