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Much as Grand Central was early in the century, Lever House was at mid-century the proud proclamation of a new era. The spirit of this epoch was, in a way, as bold and arrogant as that of the railroad magnates. It was the period of great national and, ultimately, international corporations...
...ALMOST a Renaissance man. Starting out at 26 as the president of an Ohio bank. Charlie Kirkwood has since worked as a publisher of a newspaper in Bangkok, a gandy dancer on the Alaskan railroad, a war-time reporter in Pakistan and Vietnam, and the founder of a prestigious law firm in Thailand. But now the man who describes himself as "an entrepreneur by nature" is back doing what he most enjoys--producing a revival of the hit musical Godspell, playing this month at the Charles Playhouse in Boston...
...year delay in pay raises for military and civilian employees of the Federal Government and in pension increases for their retired predecessors; 2) a six-month hold on cost of living adjustments (COLAS) in Social Security benefits; in Supplemental Security Income for the needy blind, elderly and disabled; in railroad retirement and veterans' pensions and in food stamps and child-nutrition programs; 3) a recommendation that Congress hold spending for many other programs close to 1983 dollar totals...
...Frankfurt. The gunman reportedly said, "I have received the sum we agreed. I'll go to Rome to carry it out." Agca allegedly then called another Turk, Omer Bagci, a restaurant worker in a Zurich suburb, and instructed him to deposit in a baggage room at the railroad station in Milan the Browning 9-mm semiautomatic pistol used in the papal shooting. On May 9, according to Agca, he arrived in Milan from his Majorca sojourn and picked up the gun. Four days later, he was standing in St. Peter's Square waiting for his victim...
...likely to propose delaying for at least six months, and possibly for as long as a year, cost of living increases that would otherwise be triggered automatically in a wide range of federal "entitlement" programs. Some samples, besides Social Security, might be pensions for veterans, federal civilian employees and railroad workers. While this proposal is fully compatible with the Reagan philosophy, it constitutes an admission that the President cannot narrow the deficit sufficiently by more reductions for such targeted social programs as food stamps and welfare, but must take more drastic action...