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...French history: $3,540,000. But the question that bedeviled Frenchmen last week was what in the world the culprits thought they could do with their loot. The bandits had made off with newly minted, neatly packaged, bronze-colored ten-franc coins-1,770,000 of them, to be exact-that weighed 17.7 tons and would require nearly 30 cu. yds. of space merely to store. If the four bandits each spend $100 per day of their bulky loot without raising suspicion, they will be plunking down the last of their ten-franc pieces some time in the year...
Erstwhile Allies. On Sunday, Cairo launched more bombing raids and claimed that six Libyan planes and several tanks had been destroyed; two Egyptian Sukhoi 20 planes were shot down. Although the exact situation on the battlefield remained uncertain, one thing was clear: the dispute between these angry neighbors and erstwhile allies was close to careening out of control...
...Israeli Premier may not press his luck in matching scriptural references with Carter. Last month, at a meeting with Chief Rabbi (Ashkenazi) Shlomo Goren, the President listened as the rabbi cited a biblical passage but then fumbled for the exact English translation. Without missing a beat, Carter finished the verse...
...make a reservation at least three weeks ahead of time and be prepared to put up with some uncertainty: he can choose the week in which he wants to leave, but the airline has until a week before the start of the selected period .to inform him of the exact date and hour of his flight. If he then decides not to go after all, he gets only half his money back...
...light-plane manufacturers will sell 12,300 small single-engine prop jobs like the familiar Beechcraft Bonanza at a total wholesale cost of $375 million. Yet their sales of bigger jet craft, while projected at just 230 planes, will bring them almost as much revenue: $368 million, to be exact...