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...Social Security program [May 24], which now has millionaires picking up Social Security checks, has strayed far from F.D.R.'s intent to "ward off destitution" for the elderly. The system makes a mockery of what started out as a humane social program...
...climb. "Boxing wasn't my dream," he says. "It was just a sport to me." To his father it was something more. Gerry enjoys likening the Cooneys to the Corbetts in the old Errol Flynn movie Gentleman Jim, and he approves of the nickname "Gentleman Gerry." Had Ward Bond portrayed the father, that would have been Tony Cooney. But Bond played John L. Sullivan...
...transformations began early. Stallone was born in a New York City charity ward. A forceps delivery severed a facial nerve, paralyzing one side of his lip, chin and tongue. Though he is a colorfully articulate speaker, Stallone must carefully pick his way through sentences. Says he: "I've got what you'd call a Mafioso voice, and I'm self-conscious about it." Father Frank, a Sicilian immigrant, moved the family to Silver Springs, Md., and opened a beauty shop. His mother Jacqueline, a former "Long Stem Rose" chorine in a Billy Rose revue, started...
...basis must be acceptable," warns Georgi Arbatov, a member of the Central Committee who is the top authority on American affairs. The Administration's arms-control planners feel much the same. Yet the very fact that the powerful antagonists of East and West are edging uncertainly to ward the conference table may do much to tame the fears about nuclear war on both sides of the Atlantic...
DIED. Hugh Beaumont, 73, journeyman Hollywood actor whose name was etched into the public consciousness through the longevity of a TV hit series, when for 234 half-hour performances in the 1950s and '60s he was Ward Cleaver, the All-American suburban father on the still repeated Leave It to Beaver; of an apparent heart attack; during a visit to Munich, West Germany...