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Society must view discrimination on the basis of age not as an isolated issue but rather as part of the United States' economic and social system, Maggie Kuhn, founder and president of the Gray Panthers, told an Institute of Politics (IOP) audience last night...
Racism, sexism, and "ageism" are all linked, and current policies involving the elderly, while ignoring broader economic and social issues have failed to remove discrimination, Kuhn said...
...Panthers, formed in 1971, have fought against age discrimination across the nation, Kuhn said...
...Kennedy International Airport in 1978-were charges that almost as a sideline, he had rigged the outcome of Boston College games. According to Hill, he became involved in the scam when a former penitentiary pal introduced him to a friend of a Boston College reserve forward, Rick Kuhn. Kuhn allegedly enlisted the services of Sweeney, an honors graduate who proved to be a sharp negotiator, Hill asserted, indicating games that could easily be rigged and bargaining for payoffs even when the point shaving was unsuccessful...
Sweeney and Kuhn suggested cutting Cobb in on the deal because, as the team's top scorer, he could most affect their attempts to beat the spread. In fact, of the nine games involved, three times the players were unable to deliver, and the spread held. The deal, Hill contended, was struck at meetings in various Boston hotel rooms and netted the players as much as $2,500 a game. Hill said he cleared some $100,000 in eleven weeks of placing bets on the rigged games. The players deny all of Hill's allegations of payoffs...