Word: iras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past may have finally caught up with the Unicorn. Counterculture guru Ira Einhorn came a step closer to the dock Thursday after a French court agreed to send him to the U.S. to stand in a new trial for the murder of his girlfriend, Holly Maddux. It's a small step -- Einhorn's lawyer is already readying an appeal, a process that could take up to two years and go all the way to the French equivalent of the Supreme Court. But it's an important one for Maddux's family, who have seen the man they believe...
DIED. FRANCES GODOWSKY, 92, painter and younger sister of George and Ira Gershwin; in New York City. Godowsky worked as a child dancer, bringing home $40 a week (her brothers made $15 on Tin Pan Alley). In 1930 she married Leopold Godowsky Jr., a co-creator of Kodachrome, and helped him test the film by posing in colored hats and dresses...
...nation of non-savers to put away enough for retirement and take the load off Social Security? Senator William Roth (R-Del.), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, believes he knows a good idea when he sees one: his own. Roth is proposing to take his popular Roth IRA idea and graft it onto employee 401(k) plans. The central feature of the proposal would be to make the earnings on contributions in 401(k) plans tax-free when they are distributed at retirement, much like the Roth IRA. "Obviously, any attempt to increase savings would be helpful to both...
...MARRIED A COMMUNIST Iron Rinn, ne Ira Ringold, is a prominent radio actor during the late '40s and early '50s whose career collapses when his estranged wife writes a book titled, quite accurately, I Married a Communist. Philip Roth filters the story of Rinn's downfall through the memories of two men who loved and admired him. The mania of the Red-baiting days is recorded with perfect pitch. Roth's look at the past is harrowing and mesmerizing...
...James Van de Velde, who was advising on Jovin's thesis and lives just blocks from the crime scene, told the New Haven, Conn., Register that he was grilled by police and asked if he killed her. "They had no relationship other than teacher and student," said his lawyer Ira B. Grudberg. "He denies having anything to do with the murder...