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...ordinary Italian worker, whose weekly salary all goes for rent and pasta, the only hope for retirement is a pension -meager at best and by no means automatic. If he is privately employed, his fate is in the hands of a monstrous, Kafkaesque government bureau whose paper-shuffling overhead is so high that a man whose employer has paid in $15,000 on his behalf over a 30-year period will receive only $3,000 of it when he retires. The one Italian worker in eight who is a government employee fares somewhat better: provided he works nearly 20 years...
...Odds. Johnny is slated for serious trouble, no matter what his intelligence, skin color or family income. His chances of becoming delinquent: nine out of ten. To head him off, the best efforts of school, church or social workers must be extraordinary. They can be successful, the Gluecks hope, if even two of the five highly decisive factors are altered, so that Johnny's delinquency chances are reduced to six out of ten. "For instance, if the efforts of the social worker were to change the father's typical discipline of the boy from 'overstrict...
Patty's familiarity with her role was understandable. Even while her taped performance in Zone was on the air last week, Patty was onstage in Boston playing a similar but far more difficult part. She is the deaf, mute and blind child of The Miracle Worker, the Broadway-bound account of Helen Keller's early years (TIME, Oct. 5). And in The Miracle Worker, Patty's achievement is even more astonishing than it was in Zone...
...stint on the $64,000 Challenge, answering questions about popular music earned Patty a $32,000 tie with another young actor: Eddie (Music Man) Hodges. By the time The Miracle Worker was ready for casting this summer, Patty had behind her some big TV specials, among them Wuthering Heights and Swiss Family Robinson, and half a dozen Hollywood movies (including The Goddess and Country Music...
Mesmeric Effect. Singer Montand was born Yvo Livi, the son of an Italian broommaker. Fleeing Mussolini's Blackshirts, the family settled in the harbor district of Marseille, where Yves quit school to become successively a waiter, bartender, factory worker and hairdresser. His evenings he spent at the movies watching his idols-Fred Astaire, Maurice Chevalier, Charles Trenet; by the time he was 18, he was doing imitations of all three in suburban flea pits. The transition from provincial hoofer to Parisian headliner began in 1944 when Montand, newly arrived in Paris, happened to appear on a theater bill with...