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Basho persuades Shogo's prime minister to go back with him to the deep North and enlist the aide of the "barbarians" in defeating Shogo and freeing the city. The barbarians turn out to be a British Commodore whose favorite saying is "ignorance is bliss," and his sister Georgina, a tambourine-waving soul saver. They all return to the South and a series of battles between Shogo's armies and the soldiers of the Commodore follow, with first one then the other side victorious, until finally Shogo is defeated and killed...
Even so there was some grumbling at home about the cost. When someone quipped that it would be cheaper to pave the alley with money, the Philadelphia Daily News decided to enlist the services of Director Joel Bloom of the city's Franklin Institute to see what $250,000 would literally cover. Ignoring dollar bills ("inferior wearing quality," noted the News), Bloom figured that the street could be paved with dimes for $58,368 and quarters for $82,080. In fact, Bloom added, the city could cover the alley with separate layers of dimes and quarters and still have...
...complexity of the current inflation and the lack of agreement on feasible solutions, even among experts. These are important pluses. Beyond that, much depends on how President Ford weighs conflicting advice and melds it into a program. He may have missed an opportunity in pre-summit meetings to enlist the cooperation of labor and business in moderating wage settlements in exchange for Government agreement to reduce taxes. The major task before us is to prevent the commodity price inflation of the past two years from getting built into wages. If that happens, we will have inflation for a long time...
...files. Among Ballantine's most highly regarded credits are shanghaiing an oil tanker in mid-ocean and stealing a million dollars in nickels from the U.S. mint. A crony named Al G. Karp, who looks like a softball that sweats, springs him from the pen to enlist his help on a new scheme: to break a bank called Mission Bell in suburban Los Angeles...
...Moss, 31, a Syracuse University dropout who claimed to have made millions in Wall Street by helping entrepreneurs get financing. After dropping out again-this time to Katmandu -Moss dreamed up a plan that seemed to to be irresistible: for an initial fee of $50, anyone could enlist in a quasi commune called Freelandia and cash in on the cheap air fares that maximum capacity, low overhead and Moss's brains would make possible...