Word: nick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nicholas Philippides, 54, a bespectacled little Greek immigrant who runs a restaurant in Brooklyn, wearily boarded an IND subway train at the Stilwell Avenue stop near Coney Island amusement park. It was 2 a.m., and Nick was there because he had been helping a friend run a hot-dog stand at the park...
...train pulled out, and over the rumble of wheels Philippides heard scuffling and shouting as a score of Negro boys ran from car to car, smashing lights, roughing up passengers. Nick sat tight. One young marauder gashed a leg while kicking out a window, and his pals tended to the wound as he lay in the aisle near Nick Philippides. Through Nick's mind flashed the advice his fa ther gave him in Greece years ago: "If someone wants to eat with you, sit down and eat with them. But if someone wants to fight with you, move away...
Nightmarish though it was, the experience of Nick Philippides and How ard Weiner took on its real significance as part of a bigger pattern-a wave of terrorism on the trains. Within 96 hours of the Kings Highway station outbreak, these incidents also took place...
Just hours after Wagner's beefed-up subway force went on duty, a Negro pulled a knife and slashed it across the face of Cab Driver Henry Feist, 64, as he rode a Brooklyn train. The man was arrested and held on assault charges. But Nick Philippides, his face still swollen and battered, now spoke for a whole city when he said: "Of course I'll have to take the subway. I have no car, and I have to work for a living. But I'll be afraid...
Holding the Bags. Privately owned Deak & Co. issues no earnings reports. But Nick Deak happily admits that he has more than made good his boast to a wartime OSS comrade that he would open a small foreign-currency exchange, steadily expand and become a millionaire. His route to riches was, and is, tricky. Dealing in all currencies except four that are proscribed by the U.S. Government (Cuban pesos, Red Chinese yuan, North Korean won and North Vietnamese dongh), Deak always risks being caught with funny money. But he rarely loses...