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...with it. His relatives wanted it. Everybody else wanted it-they wanted him to build a hospital or a swimming pool. For all he knew they wanted him to build a fly, locust and grasshopper hatchery. John M. Davis was damned if he'd give them a nickel but he couldn't figure out what to use it for, himself...
...that frustrated feeling last week over a bit of news that plodded, with maddening deliberation, out of Russia. According to V. O. Fesenkov, chairman of the Meteorite Committee of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Science, a ""minor planet" landed on eastern Siberia last Feb. 12. The fragments of iron, nickel and cobalt were said to have smashed through the soil, penetrated the bedrock, and left several dozen craters-the biggest one 75 feet in diameter...
...November 14, 1902, she appeared in the gallery where visitors came to "watch the animals eat"--and was immediately recognized with cheers and jeers from the floor below. She shouted, "Boys! Don't eat that infernal stuff, it's poison," and started down the stairs to sell her famous nickel-plated hatchets. The students quickly crowded around her, offering cigarettes and cigars which she struck to the floor with indignation. When the uproarious mob had swept her into Sanders Theatre, she attempted to speak, but shouts and singing drowned her out, and she finally abandoned Harvard to a life...
Persuaders. In Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Louis Booth, charged with failing to put a nickel in a parking meter, convinced the judge that the meter was installed after he parked his car. In Lancaster, Pa., Tag Manufacturer Martin M. Keener paid his fine on an overtime parking charge, left the police station with an order for 9,000 parking tags...
Headmaster Peters also teaches a '"Problems in American Democracy" course for seniors, a simpler current-events class in the lower school. Says he: "Nobody's worth a nickel who doesn't know what's going on in the world. Our fifth and sixth graders know more about the world than I did when I got out of Yale...