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...private pensions and savings. An average retired couple has an income of about $14,700 per year, of which 33% comes from Social Security, 13% from private pensions and 17.5% from savings, stocks or other assets. But now that stool looks shakier than a dairy farmer's milking perch...
...ISSUES the council will rule upon from its University Hall perch this year will probably be, on the whole, less critical than some of those it has decided in the past. A proposal to stiffen the foreign language requirement is almost certain to appear--yet the only committee to have considered it before the council will have been an all-Faculty one that last met nearly a year-and-a-half ago. Since that time, no one seems to have given thought to the possibility of involving students in an issue of such obvious concern to them...
...recent afternoon he was at home slouched in a living-room chair, feet in $7 mail-order sneakers flat on the floor. His dog Patches, essentially a beagle, quivered under the couch. Helms emptied his pockets?some change, a silver cross, a Christian medallion?and talked about his curious perch in American politics. "Some folks say I'm scary," he says. "The people here don't think I'm scary." Two of his four grandchildren, capering in the yard, call him "Sir," but they are not scared. He does not want to be scary...
...years ago, a storyteller was somebody who sat cross-legged on a classroom floor with a copy of The Brothers Grimm, locked in a losing battle with the attention span of first-graders. Under the ceiling fans in Rockport, 404 adults perch on folding wooden chairs for 12½ hours, charmed by every possible kind of story from every possible kind of storyteller...
...National Aquarium. Once doomed to flounder, it received $400,000 and a new perch at the National...