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By Connie Lyons
Special to the Rappahannock News
Harrison Fbrd, who will be cracking his Indiana Jonesfamed whip again this summer, is turning 65. So are Martin Scorsese (whose film “The Departed” won the Oscar for best picture this year), and Barbara Striesand. Paul McCartney, who once plaintively crooned, “Will you still need me/Will you still feed me/When I’m 64?” is a year past that. None of these famous folks are planning on retiring any time soon.
One-third of HarleyDavidson riders are over 50, and the same age group buys one-third of all the Vespa scooters that are sold. A magazine called “Geezeijock” celebrates the athletic triumphs of men and women well into their 80s and even 90s.
Retirement in America is undergoing a radical change. For many, the idea of retirement, even before the once mandatory age of 65, used to be an inviting prospect. Today, many of those who plan on leaving their primary jobs at that point say that they intend to keep (m working and earning, cycling between periods of work and leisure.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in the mid1980s 18 percent of people in
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