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...university from his home in the Mexico City district of Santa Maria, López Mateos kept running into a fellow rider from the same district named Miguel Alemán. Alemán was already practicing law, and when López Mateos set out to arrange a pension for his mother as a descendant of a national hero, Attorney Alemán saw the case successfully through the courts. "From that time on," says López Mateos, "we have been friends." (López Mateos' mother died in 1945, but his 95-year-old aunt still...
...painter's patron offers to keep Gulley on a pension if only he will leave off the telephone calls. But the butler catches Gulley stealing a jade figurine from the patron's collection, so he is lucky to get out the kitchen door while the police are chasing round the parlor...
...mustache and a clipped British accent, he has the look of a slightly heftier (210 Ibs.) Brian Donlevy. Offering the newsmen cigarettes and lemonade, he urged that no one worry about the deposed President because his good friend (and fellow graduate at Sandhurst) was being retired on a double pension and was leaving for Britain, as "it might be too embarrassing for him to stay here." Why had he fired Mirza? "Somehow or other, people felt that he was as much responsible for the political deterioration as anyone else." Besides, the armed farces wanted "a man at the helm that...
...Diktat. Until that day comes, society as a whole and millions of individuals and their families will be faced with problems of aging at a grosser, more practical level. The trouble may begin at 65, when (thanks to a chance decision by Bismarck in the 1880s) most pension plans and many compulsory retirement plans begin to operate. For business, this cutoff point may be sound up to a point. Says G.M.'s Sloan, who kept administrative control until he was 71: "The rule is probably sound, because, while some men can stay in administrative posts beyond 65, most...
...died within months because he could find no useful niche for himself. To avert this, several big corporations now subsidize counseling services that may become available at any age after a man has qualified for a vested interest (usually after at least twelve years' employment) in its pension plan. Some companies actively urge employees to invoke this service at 55, then again perhaps at 60, and certainly at 64, to make sure that their plans for growing old usefully as well as gracefully are made well in advance...