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Having recently decided to run for President, Howdy adds a new "thingumajig" to his platform each week from viewers' suggestions (samples: cut-rate banana splits, more pictures in history books, free circus and rodeo admissions). Last week Howdy announced that he would send campaign buttons to any child who wrote in. Two days later, the first order of 5,000 buttons had been exhausted, and requests were still arriving by the sackful...
With five minutes to go, Coach Hickey mercifully took Macauley out of the game, two minutes later put in his scrubs. Final score: 65-52. Then the Billikens joyfully broke training with banana cream pie a la mode', went off to an all-night bowling alley for a little exercise...
...nearly died of overeating. At last he was removed to the controlled economy of an experimental cage and given poker chips to trade with. When he paid out a red chip, he got a bit of orange. A blue chip bought a peanut; a white chip a slice of banana. Green chips were worth a slice of bread (which Trader did not like); yellow chips were worthless...
Trader learned quickly which chips had monkey value. He traded the white (banana) chips oftener than any other. Runner-up: the blue (peanut) chips...
...attract workers in a country that had three currencies, all of them worthless in native eyes (Dutch guilders, Japanese "banana money," Indonesian rupees), Gibbon paid his 4,000 laborers partly in food, partly in credits to be redeemed when the currency is stabilized...