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...authority, a Treasury official, claimed that "something happened this year" and added that Harvard must be classified as a "penny area." To combat the deficiency, the Treasury has started to mint earlier than usual...
...cabinet, the new state would boast perhaps the best Department of Health, Education, and Welfare known. John Finley could head the Department of Labor and Steve Aaron would become curator of a Bureau of National Culture. The mint would present some problems, since a new currency would be necessary. A picture of Dean Bundy, however, could adorn the one dollar bill, Master Perkins the five, and John R. Thompson on the hundred. The thousand would remain bland until someone donates a new theatre. The revenue problem would be solved by a toll road on Mass. Avenue, a sales...
...over 81 momentous years. All week long, post office trucks had brought a mountain of greetings and gifts to Sir Winston. A special messenger, U.S. Ambassador Winthrop W. Aldrich, had personally delivered a birthday present from Dwight Eisenhower: a three-inch gold medallion, struck off in the U.S. Mint, bearing a likeness of Churchill taken from Ike's own portrait of him. On its opposite side, a citation flanked a design of clasped hands between British and U.S. shields: "Presented . . . on behalf of his millions of admiring friends in the United States for leadership and in recognition...
...morale has taken a beating, the Trib has advanced on other fronts. Sports and financial coverage have been expanded. Weekday editions have been dressed up with an eye-catching, mint-green "third section" containing the features, sports and comics as part of a plan to compartmentalize the news for easier reading. By relying more heavily on wire-service coverage of top stories, e.g., last month's "wolf whistle" murder trial in Mississippi, the Trib has saved money, expanded features and local news coverage...
Contact. In Montevideo, Uruguay, Alberico Averardo Cruzado, 25, was fired from his job as prison warden after he learned from a convict how to mint coins without silver, went into a short-lived but thriving counterfeiting business with his mother, sister and childhood friend...