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...Stevens has charisma, he also has an unusual outside sponsor in Michael Oliver, 51, an American real estate developer, coin dealer and fervent antiCommunist. In the mid-'70s, as the leader of a group called the Phoenix Foundation, Oliver tried-and failed-to build a Utopian, tax-free haven for free enterprise on Abaco, in the Bahamas. Over the past decade, Oliver estimates, he has spent $130,000 on air fares, radios, even flags, in support of Stevens' secession movement...
...face value in full in 1995. While the 1895 price of gold was $20.67 per oz., the precious metal closed in New York last week at $511. For decades the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, the largest remaining ingot bond issuer, dutifully made 2% semiannual interest payments in gold coin. But in 1933, Congress struck the gold clause and restricted the bonds' interest and principal payments to cash...
...Fleming and Scott Graham, both representing the Greater Boston Track Club, tied for first-place honors in the open division with times of 28:04. Race officials later crowned Fleming the winner after a coin toss...
...name is Ricky College, as in Joe College, and Harvard third baseman Rick Pearce has everything a scholar-athlete should. An engineering major with a heavy course load, he still finds time to participate in Cambridge's Big Brother program. His hobbies include photography, skiing and coin-collecting. And baseball...
...Ricky College," like Archie Andrews, life is a series of choices. But whereas Archie is limited to Betty and Veronica, Pearce's skills and attitude give him a background to be just about anything he wants: be it an engineer, a coin-collector or maybe even the "new Mark Belanger...