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Next to Yap. Though all change is abhorrent to the English, small change in Britain is impossibly hard on tourists, pocket linings and computers, whose manufacturers keep their most advanced models out of the country rather than adapt them to the currency.* The British have seven separate coins, ranging from...
Like English place names, English coins have an illogic all their own: while there are half crowns, which to foreigners are almost indistinguishable from florins or 2-shilling pieces, crowns are collectors' items. Though many expensive items are still priced by the guinea (1 pound plus 1 shilling), there...
Fivepenny Sixpences. Of various proposals for decimalization, the most practical is the solution already adopted by South Africa and recommended for Australia and New Zealand. The pound note would be scrapped, and the 10-shilling note become the standard denomination, while shillings would represent ten penny units like the dime...
Realizing that it might be stirring up a hornets' nest, the commission looked long and hard at the British and Continental European ways of handling addiction. Britain, with almost one-third the population of the U.S., claims to have only 400 to 500 addicts and no problem of an...
In the cities and villages of Ghana and Nigeria, his name leaped forth from billboard, newspaper and radio. Whenever he arrived in a city-in Accra, Kano, Ibadan, Kumasi, Lagos and Enugu-huge crowds turned out to cheer him, including the "all-powerful" King of the Ashantis, King Nana Sir...