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...error when he attempts to separate and exonerate one of the two faces of the same coin-Communist dogma and Communist imperialism...
...error when he attempts to separate and exonerate one of the two faces of the same coin-Communist dogma and Communist imperialism...
Oklahoman Charles D. Whitwill had to beg and borrow to raise nearly $50,000 three years ago to open the first round-the-clock coin-operated laundry in Paris, at ten times what it would have cost him in the U.S.; then he had to educate French housewives in how to use it. Now his machines are coining profits for him 24 hours a day, and one member of Paris haute société sends her maid with the family wash in a chauffeured Rolls-Royce. When Chemical Engineer Frank Manley, 32, and his wife fell in love with...
...almost every crook in the region was a cave on the banks of the Ohio on the Kentucky-Illinois border. More than 50 feet wide and 140 feet deep, the cave provided all that a hardened criminal could ask for: prostitutes "none cranny, gambling in another; heaps of counterfeit coin; and an escape hatch in the rear. The cave, Wellman writes, was the "lair of the worst cutthroats, freebooters and gallows-birds this continent ever witnessed...
...presidential profile joined those of Lincoln, Jefferson and Roosevelt on U.S. coins as the first John F. Kennedy half-dollars appeared. The new 500 piece (it replaces the Benjamin Franklin coin of 1948 mintage) was such a sellout that banks were forced to ration first-day collectors. Britain's government announced meanwhile that an acre of historic Runnymede, where Magna Carta was signed in 1215, will be given in perpetuity to the U.S. as a memorial to the late President; a simple stone plinth will be placed...