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...Social Security Act pension at 65 was a 23-year-old Princeton graduate who remarked: "It's a long way off" (TIME, Dec. 14). Last week the first U. S. wage earner to apply for a pension was one Ernest Ackerman, for 33 years a motorman for Cleveland Railway Co., who became 65 on Jan. 2. His wages for Jan. 1, day the pension plan went into effect, were $4.96, of which he paid 5? as the Social Security tax. For his pension, he claimed 32% of his total wages since the plan went into effect. This figures...
...Seaboard, is the fact that Afghans are still skittish about British interference. European-minded King Amanullah was chased out in 1929 partly because he tried to force pants on his tribesmen. His successor, Nadir Khan, was assassinated in 1933 after he had agreed to let Britain extend the Khyber Railway to Kabul...
...their children to some sordid little hotel of some little town behind the front where their husbands were in the hospital, or fled from scurrying troops, or wandered from a modest bourgeois home to the luxury of a ministerial mansion, or into exile, or into a refugee's railway carriage home. . . . This generation was born and shunted about...
...Tokyo Cabinet last week would have been naive had they not listened with incredulity and anger to what was coming through the Nanking censor. Angry Japan (and Japan was also puzzled) took the precaution of ordering impressive Japanese military units in North China to move slowly, tentatively down the railway toward Nanking...
...stories about her "weeping" at Cannes were just so much Lord-in-Waiting. In her London circle she has the reputation of holding Edward VIII by her wisecracking, hard gaiety in the most adverse or intimate situations. He has carried fairly heavy pieces of her luggage in railway stations. She has called him "Boysy" to his face in brilliant London ballrooms, spoken of him to their British hostess as "the little man" when he was King and Emperor, kept him waiting two hours in her car outside her dressmaker's. When relatives of hers from the U. S. have...