Word: coin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...closing fast, well ahead of Helen Keller, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harriet Tubman, Jackie Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Fanny Farmer, Grandma Moses, Martha Mitchell, Sara Lee, Anita Bryant, Shirley Temple and Whistler's Mother. All are candidates in a campaign to put a woman's face on a dollar coin that the Government plans to issue, probably in mid-1979. Since word became known of the plan, the Treasury has been receiving 700 to 800 nominations...
...that reason many of them tend to disappear from the scene. The angels among them, because they are younger, often have a greater affinity with undergraduates. Therefore, if they're absolutely herculean they show up on the other side of the coin" as favorite teachers of the undergraduates...
Margaret Atwood will lecture Friday, April 7 in Science Center B. Also Friday, Leo Mildenberg, a reknowned numismatist from Zurich will talk about "Master Coin Forgeries" at the Fogg...
...such relative calm? For one thing, Oceana's rough reputation has always been a bit overblown. The bars are gone now, and the town's businesses consist mainly of a coal company store, a bank, two coin laundries, an AMC-Jeep dealership, Wanda's Beauty Shop, Roberts Motel and a Montgomery Ward catalogue office. "We have no bars, no parking meters and no coloreds," says Frank Laxton Jr., a used-car dealer and Oceana's mayor...
What little action there is concerns Donny's attempt, masterminded by Teach, to steal a valuable buffalo-head nickel he sold to a customer several days before, unaware of the coin's worth. Teach plans the crime, infecting Donny with his enthusiasm and such telling logic as "You make your own right and wrong...so you know what I'm talking about here, huh?" Finally, Teach and Donny plan the caper, and Bobby is replaced by an absent friend named Fletch, at Teach's insistence...