Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some multimillion-dollar construction contracts in the Mekong River development project in Viet Nam, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. Throughout Southeast Asia, Japanese businessmen and local entrepreneurs have set up 35 joint companies, including steel mills, auto-assembly plants, transistor-radio factories and big iron, copper, bauxite and nickel mines...
Although a few speculators had already introduced metal tokens into a few Nevada houses-notably Spark's Nugget and Lake Tahoe's Wagon Wheel -Segel's tokens (usually nickel alloy) began rolling around the state like tumbleweed, are now being shoved into the slots of one-armed bandits in 50 of the state's 70 gambling houses. For the operators, it means more than nostalgia. The coins have proved a source of revenue. Customers have taken such a shine to tokens that instead of cashing them in for a dollar upon leaving, they have begun...
...defense spending for the war, though the attendant dangers of tax increases and price and wage controls may also be issues. "We're going to have to answer the Republicans on inflation," concludes South Dakota Democratic Official Herb Teske. "They're comparing the dollar to a wooden nickel, blaming the President and saying we can't support our boys in Viet Nam and Great Society programs at the same time...
THUNDERBALL. Sean Connery's alter ego, James Bond, is back with a treasury of wishfulfillment and a nickel's worth of plot, something about a couple of stolen atomic bombs...
Some Mismatch. 'Bama got a big assist from U.C.L.A. Going into the Rose Bowl at Pasadena, Calif., unbeaten Michigan State was the No. 1 team-and nobody in his right mind would have given a plugged nickel for the Bruins' chances. Michigan State's overpowering defensive line (244 lbs. per man) had held ten opponents to an average of 45.6 yds. rushing per game; on offense, the Spartans had averaged 32.1 points a game. What's more, they had already beaten the Bruins once 13-3. They were 14½-point favorites, and Los Angeles newspapers...