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...Boosel [May 6] has a great idea in a 21/2e coin-halfway between a penny and a nickel. We could call it a "pickel," which also describes our economic situation. Or a "ninny." which describes the people who are responsible...
...broad-sweep charter that outlines the country's goals for the next quarter-century. Right now, Sadat is putting major emphasis on liberalizing the economic field. Unlike its oil-rich Arab neighbors, Egypt has few proven petroleum reserves, although it does have deposits of iron ore, phosphate, cobalt, nickel and copper...
...What is it, Stevie?" the folks would ask as they dropped a coin on the kitchen table. Though only five, Stevie would chirp right back: "Dime" ... "Nickel" ..."Quarter"-whatever it was. That was more of a feat than it might seem. Steveland Morris had been blind since birth. He had also been unstoppable. By the time he was two, spoons in hand, Stevie was beating away rhythmically on pans and tabletops, or on dime-store cardboard drums. At nine, he was singing and playing harmonica up and down the Detroit ghetto streets, and being eased out of the church choir...
...much energy. He went to work in Manhattan as a delivery boy, moonlighting weekends at Feltman's, Coney Island birthplace of the hot dog. Encouraged by two singing waiters, Jimmy Durante and Eddie Cantor, Handwerker in 1916 took his savings of $300 and set up his own nickel hot-dog stand, slicing Feltman's price in half. The business grew into a multimillion-dollar fast-food chain serving up everything from frogs' legs to pizza...
...Nickel Mountain, Gardner...