Word: minting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wants - nothing. "Our life together was just like an old silent movie," says Shirley. Which cues in some grainy black-and-white footage -a slapstick idyl with speeded-up action. The idyl jerks to a stop when Van Dyke throws away his Thoreau and proceeds to make a mint. "A little hard work never killed anybody," he insists. Soon he drops dead, leaving Shirley sadder but richer, and free for Husband...
...when the Roosevelt dime came out, the U.S. mint was flooded with queries about the initials J.S. at the base of Franklin Roosevelt's neck. Quite a few outraged folks thought the letters stood for Joseph Stalin, and that it was all a Communist plot, until Designer John Sinnock patiently explained that the initials were his. Now there is a flurry over the new Kennedy half-dollar, and it's the Reds again. Complaints are coming into the Denver mint that there is a hammer and sickle on the coin. Wearily, the mint's Chief Sculptor...
...basic cause of all the excitement was the silver dollar. None have been minted since 1935, and the supply has been dwindling enough to bring a new sound to Las Vegas: in casino after casino the muted click of plastic chips has supplanted the tintinnabulation of traditional cartwheels. Last fortnight the House Appropriations Committee refused the Treasury permission to mint new silver dollars on the grounds that all its facilities should be devoted to stemming the growing shortage of small change being gobbled up by vending machines. This, plus the news that in delving into its dwindling supply of cartwheels...
...built one of the finest U.S. collections of postage stamps ever assembled. He specialized in blocks of rare stamps-four or more stamps still connected by original perforation. There was a block of 16 50 stamps dating from 1847 (the first regular postal issue in the U.S.) in mint (uncanceled) condition, valued at $24,000, and several blocks of 1901 Pan American World Exposition stamps with inverted centers, worth a total...
...National Seashore Park to the John F. Kennedy National Seashore Park; the Massachusetts legislature received a proposal to emboss "Land of Kennedy" on the state's license plates, in the style of Illinois' "Land of Lincoln." In West Germany, where Kennedy toured triumphantly last June, the Bavarian mint began striking gold and silver medallions bearing Kennedy's likeness and the legend, "We all have lost him"; endlessly, Brücken (bridges) and Plätze (squares) were converted into Kennedy-Brücken and Kennedy-Plätze The John F. Kennedy Memorial Library at Harvard...