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...nick-el-o-de-on"), and even a modest treasury of jokes (Sample: Two Martians sidle up to a glittering jukebox in a saloon and purr, "What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?"). The pop-music beat goes on, but the coin-operated phonograph business is winding down. Last week Chicago's Wurlitzer Co., which has sold 650,000 jukeboxes in the U.S. since 1933, announced that it will stop manufacturing them next month...
Freelandia planned a trip to Venezuela in December to get a good look at comet Kohoutek, but the flight, like the comet, cancelled--not enough people signed up. You might think that a seat on Freelandia is as hard to come by as a stolen Fogg coin. Not so; in fact, Freelandia needs more passengers to stay alive...
...also acceding to demands to build more processing plants, which increase jobs, income and prestige in the producing states. Ultimately, growing prosperity in these states could provide the industrialized countries with rich new markets for an immense range of goods and services. The other side of the commodities coin, however, is not so bright. Many mineral-poor lands face economic trouble, unless the disruptive scramble for global resources slows down...
Almost every man and woman in the room knew differently. Kissinger's word, the coin of diplomacy, is accepted where Nixon's is not. Kissinger's presence is welcomed where the President's is not. One of the few props that still stands beneath
...pennies annually is growing prohibitively expensive. Last January, the world price of copper was 50? per Ib. Now the price is more than $1 per Ib. and, the Treasury Department notes, if that figure reaches $ 1.20, the cost of making a cent will exceed the face value of the coin. Metal profiteers call that the "melting point," and it would usher in a vast hoarding of pennies in order eventually to melt them down for sale on the open market...