Word: retiree
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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A moderate and strike-free auto settlement would vastly strengthen that healthy trend. It also would bring to a triumphant end the union career (Woodcock, who, having turned 65, will have to retire next year, and strengthen his chances of landing a Government job -just possibly, Secretary of Labor in...
Wilkins' broadside stunned the convention. Board Member Emmitt J. Douglas of Baton Rouge, La., grabbed a microphone on the convention floor and sharply rebuked Wilkins. "I resent allegations against board members unless they are named," snapped Douglas. Besides, he added, Wilkins was reneging on an agreement to retire at...
Christina Stead will be 74 in July but is not yet ready to retire. In fact she is finishing a new novel entitled I'm Dying Laughing. "It is," she remarks, "about some American friends who were caught in the Red-baiting of the '30s. He was from...
Once he has created a reasonably cooperative atmosphere, Usery gets down to business. "He's got an uncanny ability to grasp the issues," marvels Chuck Chamberlain, head of the Brotherhood of Railroad Signal men. "He knows when one side is ready to make a concession." Usery also resorts to...
Luis Bunuel was once a great director, but you'd never know it to see The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, his first film to draw a mass audience. With the help of a minimal and episodic plot, Bunuel steers a group of severely dignified French coke-smugglers-cum-diplomats...