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...bought $10,000 in gold at $152 per oz., $10,000 in silver, and half as much in Swiss francs. Just over three years later, the gold is worth more than $16,000, and the other investments have also gained handsomely. Now he plans to increase his investments. At Deak-Perera, the nation's largest retailer of gold coins, Chairman Nicholas Deak reports that some of his recent customers have been high school kids. Says he: "It's a little scary. They just walk in and say they have a little money and they want...
When he was in his early 40s, a mere stripling, Nicholas Deak parachuted into the Burmese jungles and the Balkans on many spooky missions as an agent of the Office of Strategic Services in World War II. Now, in his early 70s, Deak has slowed down only a bit. He runs-not jogs, runs-three to five miles every morning on his own track at his estate in suburban New York. Then he is chauffeured to the global headquarters of Deak & Co., in the Deak-Perera Building near Wall Street, where he directs the largest foreign exchange business...