Word: peppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Comedian George Burns is still throwing punch lines like a heavyweight. He has just finished work on a November TV special titled The George Burns One-Man Show and is preparing for a starring part in the movie Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. A new comedy film, Oh, God!, featuring Burns in the title role, has just opened. Last week the active octogenarian paused long enough to drop into the Beverly Hilton hotel and accept the first annual Jack Benny Memorial Award from the March of Dimes. While Ann-Margret, Bob Hope and some 700 others...
Smathers told rural Florida voters that Pepper was "a known extravert," a man who "practiced celibacy" before marriage and who indulged in "nepotism with his sister...
Smathers won and forced Pepper from political office until 1962, when redistricting in the Miami area created a new congressional opportunity. Pepper ran and won, becoming a freshman Congressman at the tender age of 62. In his 15 years in the House, Pepper has missed few floor votes. He has continued, on balance, to support social action programs. As MIMS a staffer explains, "He still believes, as he did during the New Deal, that the Government can correct injustices and right wrongs...
...Pepper continues to put in testing twelve-hour days. Open-heart surgery last year hardly caused him to pause...
...House seat again in 1978. Says he proudly: "I haven't noticed any perceptible diminution of my abilities to do a job I have done for a long, long time." (One concession to his age: a hairpiece purchased early this year.) About possible retirement for himself, Pepper jokes, "I tell people I'm planning on the year 2000, but I could change my mind if I feel well. They can't sell a fellow out when he still moves with considerable alacrity...