Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robe Showing. William Douglas has no phone at his retreat in Goose-prairie, Wash.; so in a pinch, his secretary calls a neighbor who lives six miles away. When Douglas wants to call, he drives 40 miles to a roadside phone booth outside Yakima, Wash., drops in a dime and gets his office collect. Keeping contact with Thurgood Marshall also has its difficulties. In the Virgin Islands in July, he broke an ankle in a Jeep accident. Last summer he had appendicitis, and two summers ago he got pneumonia. "We have a regular routine here," says his secretary...
...William Thomas) Grant, 96, founder and honorary chairman of the retail chain that bears his name; of heart disease; in Greenwich, Conn. Grant opened the first of his "250 stores" in a Lynn, Mass., Y.M.C.A. in 1906, and immediately specialized in high-turnover products priced between the nickel and dime items of F.W. Woolworth's and the 500 minimum then common in department stores. Nearly 50 years ago, he decided that the business needed professional managers rather than a merchant at the top, and he gradually withdrew from active participation to devote most of his time to philanthropy...
...haven't forgotten how to "point off," giving $10,000 to the finder of $500,000 is the equivalent of rewarding the finder of a $5 bill with a dime...
...looks, feels and reads like a newspaper. Appearing on newsstands, A Maine Manifest even costs a dime. But it is a master plan-a compilation of data, projections and ideas of the kind that most citizens never see. It tells how Maine's residents "might regain control of the state's future, which has slipped away from them...
Rooftop Rifles. Frank Gracia, head of a drug-rehabilitation program in the Southeast Bronx, became aware of the gangs six months ago. He told TIME Correspondent Leonard Levitt: "We had this street fair, selling sausages for a dime, sodas for a nickel. Well, these kids got in an argument with one of our people, broke his arm and all his fingers. Then they sent their girls over to tell us they wanted to fight us. Now, hell, I've been around. I was in gangs in the '50s. I was a junkie for 15 years before I kicked...