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Between tables laden with cards, pennants and other baseball memorabilia, Greg Siegel, 14, clutched a prized possession, Catcher Johnny Bench's Topps rookie card. Greg has set aside what he calls a "baseball card account" for wheeling and dealing. After two years, he has parlayed a nest egg of $700 into slightly more than $1,000. Says he: "I think it may be better than even the stock market." And, without a doubt, considerably more...
...Cannibal Masque and A Serpents Egg...
With military orders flowing in, Wedtech's revenues grew to $72.3 million by 1984. The company went public with a $30 million stock offering, making millionaires of Mariotta, Neuberger and other executives. But the stock sale almost killed the goose that laid the golden egg: since Mariotta was no longer the majority stockholder, Wedtech ceased to qualify as a minority-owned company. When the local SBA office began proceedings to remove the company from the set-aside program, Wedtech's officers quickly worked out an agreement to transfer 1.8 million shares of stock to Mariotta's nominal control. Wedtech turned...
...doghouse, a two-story log affair built to resemble a Western fort. Naturally Duane's red- eyed pooch Shorty won't go near this oddity. McMurtry neatly establishes both that Shorty has a firmer grip on things than his master and that Duane, though distracted, is not a bad egg; there is no dog in the doghouse he is cannonading. Still, Shorty does have problems: Can his master get it together to open a can of Alpo...
...they signed on with the bus-and- truck mainly for the money. The members of the company all collect a per diem expense, and the idea is to live on the per diem and stash the paycheck for when they get back to New York. "You need a nest egg in this business," says Bruce Daniels, a lead, "so you can survive while you're out trying to get . . ." -- his voice deepens and Tivoli lights blink on in his eyes -- "that starring role." Meanwhile, they double up at hotels to save money. Back in Utica (it was definitely Utica), several...