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...opera was derided by Addison in The Spectator for its "Painted dragons spitting wildfire, and enchanted chariots drawn by Flanders mares." But its lush melodies were just what the public wanted: it became the first real operatic hit in English history. Its success won Handel a ?200 annual pension from the crown...
...week on the New York Daily News, $136 on the Los Angeles Herald-Express, $105 on the Indianapolis Times. And his security is as thoroughly bolted as any blue-collar compositor's. Typically, he gets severance pay, three weeks' paid vacation a year, paid sick leave, a pension, a 40-hour week or less, and the contractual right to arbitrate his grievances with the boss...
...lived well, until a quarrel with his Kentucky wife ended in divorce, and in 1947 he decided to go back to the Middle East. He bought a small house in Damascus, married again and settled down to a simple life on skimpy savings and a U.S. Army pension. This spring he prepared for the hadj to Mecca...
Veterans' pension bills are often cleverly booby-trapped-a fact that the battlescarred Congress should realize, but apparently doesn't. Two weeks ago Texas Democrat Olin E. Teague, chairman of the Veterans' Affairs Committee, presented the House with a beguiling, Administration-backed pension-reform bill that, it was claimed, would save $12 billion over the next 40 years by tightening the rules on federal pensions for needy veterans. After less than 40 minutes of debate, the House gave the bill its overwhelming endorsement and won itself another Purple Heart...
...degree from almost any accredited Commonwealth school is acceptable to all others. Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand have dovetailed their old-age pension plans, medical and unemployment benefits so as to make them interchangeable. Even Eire and Burma, which left the Commonwealth, are elliptically described as "not foreign countries." The tradition of the dignity of the individual seems to pay off. In not a single Commonwealth country is there a major Communist Party of importance or prestige...