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Some elderly Americans cannot afford even the smallest apartment. For them, what passes for independence is a clammy rented room and a hot plate. An estimated 2,000 oldsters cling to life in $15-a-week furnished rooms in Boston's shabby South End. A few others find homes in peeling, decrepit residential hotels like the once elegant Miami resort where Mrs. David Yates, 90, gets a suite of rooms, maid service and two meals a day (no lunch) for $500 a month. People who cannot afford even this much may sometimes find a plain but safe haven...
...star-cluttered sky; in more advanced versions of the system, the spots turn into a pattern of concentric circles because the diamond is rotated during exposure. Says Shtrikman: "Diamonds are like people. No two are alike. Every diamond, even the purest, has specific impurities, stains and flaws. Even the smallest difference between stones can cause a completely different print." Only if the diamond is cut up into smaller gems-often difficult to do unless the original stone is quite large-or if some of its facets are repolished will the distinctive identifying information be lost...
...Mobutu Sete Seko. Mobutu has changed the county's name from the Congo to Zaire, instituted the new flag, and changed his own image in an effort to foster nationalism among his people. Mobutu's face appears on every Zaire stamp, and on all currency except for the very smallest coin. On coins minted in 1967, right after he came to power, he's depcited in an army uniform with rows of medals on his chest and a mean look on his face under his black glasses. Coins from 1969 show him in a business suit. In 1972 an African...
...average of 3% on orders of up to $5,000. But Blyth Eastman Dillon held commissions at present levels for small investors, trimmed them by 8% or more on larger deals for institutional clients. Bargain brokers popped up; one advertised commission cuts of 75% on "all but the smallest trades...
...permit calm interpretation. Yet four professional President watchers and one street-wise verbal brawler with a police reporter's eye and literary style to match, have dared to look back in anger or regret. Perhaps because Americans are weary of grandiose pronouncements, it is the writers who think smallest who seem most worth reading...