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Those provisions are enough to make the act "landmark legislation" in the view of Bertran Seidman, Social Security director of the AFL-CIO. But the law does not go far enough to please many advocates of pension reform. No employer would be required to set up a pension plan. Many blue-collar workers take their first jobs at 16 but would not have to be included in pension plans until they are 25 (though they must then be given credit for three years' vesting). Karen W. Ferguson, a Washington attorney and ally of Ralph Nader, complains that not requiring...
Attention focused naturally on Sam Ervin, now serving the last of his 20 years in the Senate. Through some ten weeks of televised hearings last summer, he had become, at the end of his career, a folk hero, a landmark of integrity. As TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud observed last week: "Sam Ervin hadn't been discovered as a result of Watergate; he had simply been there waiting, as though his entire life had been a preparation for this final service...
While no fireworks were expected during the summit itself, the third Nixon-Brezhnev meeting seemed to be a landmark of another kind. It was the first of the quiet summits, the start of dull, workaday meetings that offered the possibility that the nuclear-arms competition some day might be ended...
...1860s there was a big controversy here over whether Harvard should be just a top-flight college or just a grad school, and President Eliot made a landmark speech, saying that Harvard should be both. We have the same kind of problem facing us now, except that the conflict is between elitism and populism. And again, we've got to have both...
...Michael Arlen's The Green Hat, she later chose rich dramatic roles in the "Katharine Cornell Presents" company she founded with McClintic in 1931. Its first production, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, featured Cornell as the consumptive Elizabeth Barrett. In 1933 Cornell took the company on a landmark 21,000-mile road trip through the U.S., bringing The Barretts, Shaw's Candida and Romeo and Juliet to such places as Amarillo, Texas, and Portland, Me. Cornell's fine eye for casting led her to offer early breaks to such talents as Gregory Peck and Orson Welles...