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...WORLD OF OZ by Osborn Elliott Viking; 253 pages...
...Congress's decision six years ago to permit U.S. citizens to hold gold for the first time since 1933, few Americans were able to buy domestic gold. The smallest quantity offered by the Treasury Department in its monthly auctions before they were canceled last October was a 300-oz. bar that sold for as much as $118,000. A Midas with a smaller touch usually turned to the popular 1-oz. South African Krugerrand, which sells for about $25 more than the spot price for gold (last week's closing: $510). Throughout the years the South Africans...
...talks, Lucas told me that what he wanted to do in the Star Wars series was to create a 'classic children's tale,' so the assignment suited me fine: I still like Peter Pan and Snow White. My older brother read L. Frank Baum's Oz stories to me when I was little, and I intend to read them to my son when he is old enough...
Yoda, a 26-in.-tall Muppet operated by Frank Oz, the man in charge of Miss Piggy, is one of Lucas' great fantastics. Part elf and part wizard, he is Dagobah's answer to the High Lama of Shangrila. He has been training Jedi Knights for 800 years. At first he hardly wants to talk to Luke. "No good," he says to Ben Kenobi, who has hovered into view once again. "I cannot instruct him. The boy has no patience. Much anger in him, like his father. All his life has he looked away-to the horizon...
...Oz, who jumped right off the set, yelping loudly enough to be heard throughout the thousand worlds...