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...adage which has it that the July 4th league leaders will play in the World Series has come true in three of the last four seasons. In the National League, baseball fans figure it will probably hold true again. In the American League's three-way battle, a coin flip still looked as good as an adage...
...three main methods: 1) Zenith's Phonevision, . .which pipes the unscrambling signal over telephone lines, with the charges going on monthly telephone bills (TIME, June 4); 2) Skiatron, which equips TV receivers with built-in "decoders" that are operated by special plastic cards; 3) Telemeter, which attaches a coin-in-the-slot gadget directly...
...London, when Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison reported the week's events to the House of Commons, the massive head of Winston Churchill bowed low. While Morrison summed up government policy (i.e., watch & wait), a coin fell to the floor with a sharp tinkle. In sudden silence, the Speaker demanded to know who had thrown it. Tall, tawny Tory Major Legge-Bourke rose, bitterly explained he had tossed it at the Foreign Secretary to suggest he should "put on another record." Icily the Speaker declared: "I now direct the honorable and gallant gentleman, because of that act, to leave this...
...committee has been going to the mint yearly since 1793 after President George Washington approved legislation calling for an annual "Trial of the Coins." Money from the mints at Denver and San Francisco is included in the test. Coins minted at Denver are stamped with an initial D, from San Francisco with an S. Except for wartime 5? pieces which contained no nickel and bear the initial P, coin from the Philadelphia mint is unmarked. In 158 years, the committee, usually from twelve to 14 people, has never found a defective coin...
...reward for his ignorance. But Wu had vision and persistence. He determined to beg money for free schools so that other poor children should not grow up as he did. He stood in the cold outside rich men's houses for hours waiting for a dropped coin. Once he knelt begging for three days outside an official's mansion. By 1896, his persistence had earned him enough to build three schools and make him a legend among Chinese schoolchildren...