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...Ahmad Shah made himself first King of the nomadic Afghan tribes and conquered all of northern India, Afghans still dream of spreading out once again. Last week Afghanistan's King Mohammed Zahir Shah rode solemnly through Kabul's dusty, unpaved streets to the Shora-e-Milli (House of Representatives). There he urged his acquiescent Parliament to support the revolts of the Pathan tribes across the border in Pakistan, who are flesh and blood of King Zahir's own royal family. The British, in their old boundary-drawing days, had once separated the fierce Pathans (or Pakhtoons) from...
...scheme. Free-trading commissioners feared that to propose it would be to admit that tariff cuts actually would hurt home industries. Protectionists ridiculed it, for it struck at the heart of their arguments: by automatically compensating for damage to industry, the only valid reason for tariffs is removed. Gene Milli kin called it "government trying to play the Deity with our economic system." Such statements overlooked some figures computed by the U.S. Labor Department: each week 300,000 newly unemployed workers apply for jobless insurance; but cutting all tariffs in half would cost only 100,000 workers their jobs...
...Anthony Milli's interest was roused the minute he laid eyes on the young fellow. Mr. Milli is a subway cop, sensitive to subway manners, and there was something about the way the young man sauntered into a Brooklyn subway station that looked suspicious. Milli hid in a nearby booth and watched...
...platform. But instead of boarding a train, he stood there and watched while three other people came through the turnstile after him. Then he looked hastily around, darted to the turnstile, put his lips to the coin slot, sucked. At this point the amazed Mr. Milli bounded out of hiding and grabbed him. In the young man's mouth. Milli later declared, was a nickel...
Appearing with his captive before Magistrate Charles Solomon. Milli explained how it was done: the ingenious and germ-defying young man, who said that he was Chester Madzenski, dropped a squashed penny into the slot; it stuck there, instead of falling into the coin box. Subsequent nickels piled up on top of it. Madzenski apparently had it figured out that when three nickels had been dropped on top of his penny, the last one would be near enough to the top so that he could suck...