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...clothing there. A National Maritime Union hiring hall is located only a few yards from the nurses town house, and detectives, surmising that the murderer might be a seaman, astutely checked the union office. There, William Neill, local N.M.U. secretary, sifted through the files and came up with a coin-machine photo of Speck-an ex-convict and sometime merchant mariner-pinned to a work application...
...sell off his few losers,*and he is personally no spendthrift. He and his second wife Joanne, 37, live luxuriously. But, remembering the day when he was down to his last nickel after having been laid off as a part-time shoe salesman, Cummings will reach into the coin-return slot after a pay-station telephone call to see if his dime comes back. "I may be extravagant," he says, "but I'm not wasteful...
...contemplative Americans, Years of Lightning offers little more than an idealized shadow of the real J.F.K., a monochromatic coin likeness. His resilience, his zest for tough political infighting, his wild Irish humor are scarcely touched upon at all. His weaknesses are ignored or glossed over so swiftly and uncritically that the Bay of Pigs "setback" seems a mere preliminary bout for the Administration's sword's-point showdown over the dismantling of Soviet missile sites in Cuba. "There were those who disagreed with the President," says Peck. But they obviously don't matter very much...
Reverse Chauvinism. On the other side of the coin, no special restrictions stand in the way of direct French investment in U.S. firms, which now stands close to $200 million, plus at least $1 billion worth of stock-and-bond holdings. State-controlled Compagnie Francaise des Petroles, the ninth largest oil company in the world, has just bought one-third of Leonard Refineries, Inc., a Michigan-based independent oil company with 800 retail outlets and 1,200 miles of pipeline, as an entering wedge into the rich U.S. market. Petroles plays the game with some reverse chauvinism based...
...Segel organized General Numismatics Corp., a private mint set up in Franklin, Pa., to produce commemorative coins for some 5,000 coin collectors and hired away from...