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...Sete Seko. Mobutu has changed the county's name from the Congo to Zaire, instituted the new flag, and changed his own image in an effort to foster nationalism among his people. Mobutu's face appears on every Zaire stamp, and on all currency except for the very smallest coin. On coins minted in 1967, right after he came to power, he's depcited in an army uniform with rows of medals on his chest and a mean look on his face under his black glasses. Coins from 1969 show him in a business suit. In 1972 an African...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: The Sun Never Sets on Empire | 5/28/1975 | See Source »

...that catapulted an obscure Tom Stoppard to fame and chic respectability, Rosencrantz focuses on the bewildering world of the two minor characters in Hamlet and their hellish and condemned existence in a play they do not understand. A madcap Danish prince reels drunkenly in and out, a tossed coin falls on "heads" 92 times in a roll, distracted characters enter and exit without explanation...

Author: By Ta-kuang Chang, | Title: Not Hamlet, Nor Meant to Be | 3/26/1975 | See Source »

...Senators, J. William Fulbright and John McClellan. Still, it took him 18 months to find work, as director of the Arkansas State Nurses Association. During his ordeal, he depleted his life savings, cashed in his son's life insurance, dropped the family's hospitalization insurance, sold his coin collection and moved from a twelve-room house to a three-room basement apartment in his in-laws' home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNEMPLOYMENT: America's New Jobless: The Frustration of Idleness | 3/17/1975 | See Source »

Left and Right are two sides of the same coin. The coin is counterfeit. The coin is Leadership. All Leadership is counterfeit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SAYS IT ALL | 3/12/1975 | See Source »

...gold action. A Michigan girl, twelve-year-old Carlenne Brown of Bloomfield township, claims to be the first buyer of the yellow metal. At one second past midnight on Dec. 31, she signed an invoice for a quarter-ounce wafer, bought for $52.79 through a publicity-minded Southfield, Mich., coin dealer; he obtained the wafer from a fellow dealer in nearby Windsor, Canada, and had it delivered to his shop by car and helicopter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: The Rush That Wasn't | 1/13/1975 | See Source »

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