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What Finney and you and I don't realize about our television-drugged parents is that by now they have acquired some sort of life-view, and they have pocketed it, like some foreign coin saved from a trip abroad--too interesting to discard and fun to show off, but not of much use any more...
...Athens, dug up a busy street to repair a sewer. The statues lay on a mosaic floor and were covered with black dirt mixed with ashes and broken roof tiles, indicating that they had been buried in the wreckage of a fire. Deep among them the diggers found a coin that was issued in 87 or 86 B.C.-which strongly suggested that the kouros must have been covered over about that time...
Then at Jaipur, the First Lady was expected to throw a coin from her own country into a silver pot. Galbraith, said the columnist, had not informed Mrs. Kennedy of the local superstitions and was even caught without an American coin. Touring newswomen provided a quarter...
...Coins to Deals. The beginnings are sufficiently classic: Mayer Amschel Rothschild was a secondhand-shopkeeper, locked at night inside the Frankfurt ghetto. Appropriately enough, Mayer began to specialize in coins, and rose by way of highborn coin collectors. From selling coins, the family went on to lending money; the sons left home, and went from trading in commodities to dealing in finance. In those days, when news traveled no faster than the stagecoach or sailing ship, the five brothers realized that a speedy communications system could mean money, organized their own version of a private pony express and courier service...
...those who care, Guinness also reports that the longest sword that can be swallowed after a heavy meal measures 26 in. The most extensive case of coin swallowing was reported by Sedgefield General Hospital, County Durham, England, where a man was relieved of 366 halfpennies, 26 sixpences. 17 threepences, 11 pennies and four shillings (424 coins valued at about...