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...from an alltime high of $2.57 per oz. in June 1968 to as low as $1.29 early last month. Victims of the fall include Wall Street metals speculators, small-time investors who had bought silver as a hedge against inflation, silver miners in the U.S. and Canada, and even coin collectors. The price of a bag containing $1,000 in silver coins has dropped from $1,400 in October...
...accomplished linguist and a radio technician who posed as a photographer and amateur artist while leading his double life in Brooklyn. There he rented a $35-a-month studio near the federal courthouse. Like fictional spies, Abel used a variety of arcane items: hollow bolts and coins to carry messages, phony documents, cipher books. In 1953 one of his hollow nickels containing microfilm found its way into the hands of a newsboy, who gave the coin to the police. But FBI agents did not bag Abel until four years later, when an underling defected and turned him in. He admitted...
What could the U.S. have won? What did she want? Ulam's depiction of the Soviet side of the coin is perceptive and imaginative. His analysis of the thrust of American policy is confused and disingenuous...
...more. He touches his lips to signal silence. He smiles and, miming the blowing out of a candle, he takes a thief's farewell, first the color fading, then the sad cold light of his eyes gone, and one last blinking of something-a jewel, a ring, a coin cupped in his palm, and darkness comes between us and is final...
...Reconditioned and repainted in such unbureaucratic colors as pink, yellow and purple, old parking meters are being sold in increasing numbers for use in offices and homes as timing devices, coin banks or simply the latest examples of pop sculpture...