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...young man in a purple and gold varsity jacket was dangling a silver coin strung on a thread of elastic He was tall, with an open face and blue eyes and reddish blond hair that was all cowlick and no style, and Clare recognized him at once. Everyone at school recognized him. Once when Clare dropped her wallet while she was trying to open her locker, he'd leaned down and picked it up... "You dropped your wallet," he said. She was too flustered to say thank you. She managed a quick nod of her head and he disappeared down...
...melodramatic perhaps, but this is really the only clear picture we get of Ben. Some lucky coin--to which Death owns the rights--draws much closer scrutiny...
...Arab initiatives have not "gone far enough to galvanize a positive Israeli response," says one U.S. official. As the leader of a fragile coalition government, Peres may have trouble bargaining with the Arabs. The conservative Likud adamantly opposes territorial exchange, which for some is the basic coin of the peace negotiations. Peres and his Labor Party are not now in a position to dominate the Likud or ease it out of power in new elections. The U.S., however, supports the Prime Minister's approach to the Arab overtures. "He has been careful and reserved, but open," says an American diplomat...
...tsetse fly, on slave labor, on trade tariffs, on the future of the Australian wombat. Conferences are supposed to begin and end punctually, and then the delegates depart to make room for the next set of delegates. That is the system, and the motto on the Swiss 5-franc coin is "Dominus providebit" (The Lord will provide). This week the $100-a-day hotels are filling up with visitors to the world's biggest auto show, which is being held at the new Palexpo exhibition hall. Next week U.S. and Soviet diplomats arrive to resume arms-control talks. Such things...
Deak-Peters President Leslie Deak, who could not be reached for comment, told the protesters through the Boston branch manager that they should concentrate on to customers about not buying the coin, according to MIT professor Willard Johnson, the demonstrators' spokesman...