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Flip's mother abandoned the family when Flip was still a youngster, and his father floated from place to place in search of low rents. At one point he moved his brood into a coalbin cellar. "We'd steal buns from the A & P, milk, anything to keep alive," recalls Flip's brother Lemuel, a carpenter in Jersey City. "I used to steal Christmas trees so we'd have one on Christmas." In those days Flip was a quick, thin child with a runny nose and a big appetite; his brothers and sisters called...
...third grade, he showed little interest in drawing flowers and houses. He preferred skeletons, with each bone carefully labeled, or diagrams of the human circulatory system. Two and a half years ago, Bobby took up chemistry. He set up a tiny laboratory in his parents' unused coalbin, plastered the walls with his own charts of the elements and their valences. His mother went to the Cleveland Heights Board of Education to get him a special tutor...
Phew! In Stockbridge, Mass., Mrs. John F. Decker argued that no woman should be expected to put up with a man who kept six skunks in the coalbin. She got the divorce...
With Ash Can & Grater. Lithium's industrial champion is chunky, soft-spoken Harold J. Ness, who began experimenting with the restless metal during the depression, when his work as a metallurgist with a forging company slackened. His first laboratory was his coalbin, and the first lithium furnace was made from ash cans. The lithium was powdered with a common kitchen cheese grater...
...flaw critics have pointed out in the Act is its scheme for a full reserve for old-age insurance to be built up during a long period while revenues from taxes on employers and employes exceed disbursements. By 1980 this vast coalbin is scheduled to hold a reserve of $47,000,000,000. The effect of locking up $47,000,000,000 of public purchasing power would be highly deflationary. Actually, the money is not being locked up but lent to the Government. This means that by 1980 the Government will owe the Social Security Reserve 21% more than...
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