Word: minting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The fellow who made a mint writing about his adventures as a professional amateur sportsman now takes up tails and triangle for an insider's view of the workings of the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra: "The Secret Musical Life or George Plimpton...
Exploiting a Letdown. Ankrah has cut down government expenses by 20%, laid off at least 83,000 earners from what was fondly called "no-work pay" in the old days, and shipped tons of coins bearing Nkrumah's likeness to be melted down in the British Mint. By devaluing Ghana's currency 30%, Ankrah has shrunk imports and wiped out a foreign trade deficit that totaled $840 million when he took over. He has given such U.S. companies as Firestone Tire & Rubber and Union Carbide contracts to revitalize Nkrumah's mismanaged state corporations...
...Mexico (A.D. 1220) to a bargain Rembrandt, An Old Man Praying. The Rembrandt was picked up for an estimated $500,000 because other buyers were distracted by the painting's murky appearance (Cleveland has since removed the layers of umber-tinted varnish, bringing the Rembrandt back to mint condition, and dumbfounding Dutch experts who had seen it before and after cleaning). Even choicer to the connoisseur's eye are Cleveland's two ivories and, rarest of all, an engraving by Antonio Pollaiuolo (see color opposite...
...tenacious and seasoned Chicago fund raiser. Undaunted by an earlier estimate that had pegged the cost of restoration at $4,000,000, Bea Spachner enlisted the aid of an enthusiastic Louis Sullivan fan, Architect Harry Weese, 52. Weese resurveyed the building, reported that it could be brought back to mint condition for only $2,250,000, and volunteered to donate his services...
...River from the spires, colonnades and domes of the federal city. Through its two tiers of subbasements and five aboveground stories, windowless corridors weave like badger warrens. The bastion of America's military establishment not only houses the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a mint of high brass, but is also a beehive of bureaucracy where some 10,800 civilians shuffle routinely through the daily load of paperwork. It is actually five giant buildings, concentrically interconnected and braced one upon another...