European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes july 1985 columns comments today crossword resorting to our primal instincts by Al Len Goodman the figures arc not in i dont know precisely How my people chose the same escape route from the Tele vision screen to the Silver i dont know How Many left behind the image of a 727 stuck on a runway in Beirut and paid to watch rambo execute a rampaging Rescue in it is enough to say that this cinematic a hero As primeval As was playing in Heaters in enough to note that rambo first blood part ii was i on the hit Parade during the terror ism in san in the real hostages said that they feared a Rescue in the real the president called for a Rea soned response and a task Force on but in movie audiences released a shriek of jingoistic Joy when a Lone vet took on the commies abroad and the Lily livers at Home to save a different Batch of what a Lucky bit of Box office timing rambo freeing americans in the far East just As others were captured in the near the movie is read made for All the people calling radio talk shows with precise plans to bomb Beirut or string up every for those who have not seen it is a sequence of political symbols Strung across the sinew of Sylvester Stal Lones the Star plays a human War machine sent Back to the scene of defeat he is to be a tool of technocrats who need photos of an empty Camp to prove to the Public that there Arent any More pos in but he finds and for his trouble is deserted by our and tortured by the russian Vietnam before the saving is he has single Anderly added several Hundred kills to his War by comparison to this piece of red Dawn looks like a film produced by an International Friendship rambo pushes every fascistic Button that was Ever sewn on a Brown except that Stallone Doest Wear i its just a and i suppose a vehicle to display Stallones pectorals As much As his As a co Stallone gave himself All looks and no John rambo makes John Wayne look positively but if i am still choking on my its because i was surrounded in my air conditioned escape Hatch by a Gleeful and Young throng of never mind the rating the most intense Stallone fans were in Grade school when the last helicopters left americans who lived through world War the Good War when we were defenders and has a very different kind of in those the soldiers were Ordinary Guys named Brooklyn and they were men who shared smokes and swapped pictures of Home and were not proud of but today Young have grown up in a country that lost a War and lost its they have watched one hostage crisis and now a sequel on their television they have seen our random acts of Vio Lence vacationers taken hostage businessmen shot alongside marines at a san Salvador sidewalk their heroes Are not average citizens but not Ordinary but nearly it is no Accident that rambo is called the chosen one in this movie or shown twice tortured in the posture of the Back in Sylvester Stallone became famous As a Homespun Lunk of a Man named he was Lliter but he had now a Stallone sequel is like an old Chart of the evolution of Man run in every time we see Hes on a lower i want to stay Stallone said in an inter he is the secret of 1 have an uneasy sense with every International More of us descend to that As we feel More vulnerable in the As sophisticated diplomacy fails in a confrontation with we look up to those who act out of primal those who can match the enemy in in the hero of the Day is already what comes next in our fantasy life the missing link c Boston glob Washington Post by de Cloutier in the year George Armstrong Custer was Defeated at the Little what kind of Money did he have in his Possession did he have any Indian head pennies in his jacket or his pockets of All the accounts of that Battle Ive i never saw it mentioned what was found on his we do know that he carried a different Rifle than did his when i was Young we still received pennies in our change from the local grocery also Liberty Mercury dimes and Buffalo the head on this Coin is an Indian not a without shield with shield Young Indian chief or Warrior As Many there Are two varieties of this version one has a Laurel Wreath on the reverse was made of Copper and and was Only minted the first version two was also Copper and Nickel but Wreath was changed to an Oak Wreath with a Small shield at the the year 1907 was the year the most Indian head coins were there also occurred a few years that had Low it still amazes me How popular this Coin was and still even today when i attend a Coin show the question whether i have any Indian head pennies for Sale always seems to come and its a hard Coin to keep in your sales the Indian head cent was designed by the mint in James his initial appears on most Indian head but not version three began in the Metal was changed to the weight was reduced and the Coin was a Little but the diameter stayed the which is the same size As a Lincoln cent the design stayed the prior to 1864 this cent did not have the designers initial l on the headband in late 1864 a few coins came out with the initial on the see photo and Are quite hard to a proof Coin was made almost every the year 1877 seems to be the key Coin of this an uncirculated one goes for around to for an but the most expensive Coin is the 1864 with an l and in proof it demands at least the 1909s is a rare mintage because that was the last year of this Coin and the beginning of the Lincoln and Only were and an ms60 Sells for around the l appeared from 1864 on the coins minted from 1859 to 1886 the last Feather of the headdress pointed Between the i and c of the word from mid 1886 to 1909 it Points Between the c and the there Are numerous errors in this for example the 1873 had a double word Liberty on the during 1873 there is an open 3 and a closed see the 1888 has an 8 Over 7 on the end All in the Indian head Coin is an attractive and still popular right now during the summer there Are not Many Coin shows going the next show will be sometime in octo please write if you have questions or a Date of a local show coming the stars and stripes would j 710 i just by Eugene Sheffer across 1 Nana singers 4 sacks 8 fills with wonder 12 Tennis stroke 13 Assam silkworm 14 fuel 15 diamonds forever 16 rustic dance 18 courage 20 Compass Reading 21 boards partner 24 coveted award 28 Laughin comedian 32 Hacienda room 33 doctors 34 Early persians 36 the i love 37 Cotton balls 39 Valentine Archer 41 form 43 repast 44 playing card 46 Confounder of Rome 50 Scarlet Street actor 55 grampus 56 author critic 57 Rowan tree 68 mad wet Hen 59 swabs 60 Harbor boats 61 summer Bonus Down serb 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 17 19 22 Lively dance Man in genesis private chamber Macaw card game glut admit Tance cookware supple ment talk gis hockey Bobby was in debt to yesterdays Puzzle 710 solution time 26 23 Call 25 summer spot 26jai 27 author ayn 28 Black Birds 29 Oriental nurse 30 in Madrid 31 hawaiian Goose 35 sacred beetles 38 High in Bridge 40 rubber tree 42 old French Coin 45 formerly 47 protective ditch 48 one of the bears 49 scrutinize 50 Beaver Structure 51 past 52 Katmandu land 53 u Are Beautiful 54 work unit 710 Hubert traae for v Happy no 60es id visit her sister from 6 to 7