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...currencies began appearing in local retail stores and restaurants-at least 36 fake bills were spent in all-somebody called the cops. (Finally even the U.S. Secret Service joined the investigation.) Allentown police arrested the bill passers-but not the two high school boys who had created the bogus scrip-and turned their cases over to juvenile authorities. The police at least gave the budding young printers good marks for their technically criminal craft. Said Lieut. Ronald Neimeyer: "The bills looked good. The quality and the color were not great, but they were absolutely perfect in every other respect." Maybe...
...president of Standard Oil of California, a part-owner of Caltex, is also a member of the Stanford board of trustees, SCRIP members said...
Members of the Stanford Committee for a Responsible Investment Policy (SCRIP) yesterday said they were opposing the board of trustees decision Tuesday night not to support a shareholder resolution urging that Caltex withdraw from South Africa...
...attitude that makes their book succeed. On virtually every page are anecdotes and vignettes that constitute a witty, indelible portrait of the Soviet Union. Sweat, garlic and tobacco are the "characteristic smell of Moscow." Shoppers use no checks or credit cards; only the privileged in this "classless society" use scrip to buy luxury groceries at bargain prices. Three bathers in Armenia show off portraits of Marx, Engels and Lenin tattooed on their chests...
Anticipating thin shopping crowds this season, stores are cutting down on part-time sales help and even committing the unheard-of act of promoting pre-Christmas bargains, such as brand-name $14 shirts for $6.99 in Boston. Korvettes discount department stores in Manhattan are offering scrip worth $ 110 in merchandise to customers who bring in $100 in Christmas Club checks. Chicago's Montgomery Ward chain, which has an unusually high inventory of unsold goods, has decided to bring back last year's energy saving and cut down on costly Christmas lighting displays...