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With this year's show, "Touch of the Times," moving toward completion, the organization is searching for a suitable vehicle of production next fall, and any Radcliffe or University student with a yen for seeing his work on cellulose may offer scenarios for competition...
Footloose students with a yen for summer travel abroad have a chance to satisfy their wanderlust in a three-month tour of England, Furnace, and the Netherlands, according to information released over the weekend by regional officials of the National Student Association...
...Japan, where the largest note in circulation is 100 yen (worth approximately 50?), counterfeiting is a poor business at best, and the Ikedas were not even good counterfeiters...
Living in a tiny, corrugated iron shack with no blankets and little food, the pair laboriously painted copies of 100-yen and 10-yen notes by hand. Kanji, a onetime mechanical draftsman, sold them apologetically at a 10% discount, explaining that the ink had been blurred in a faulty printing press. In ten months, the total take was less than...
...Ikedas, at least courage and persistence did. Last week their counterfeiting came to an abrupt end as police closed in on their iron hovel. Citizens of Osaka, hearing the pathetic story of Kanji and Yoshino, promptly raised and sent to the jail a sympathy fund of 18,000 yen-almost twice what the Ikedas had been able to paint for themselves...