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...first year Leverone's company took in $30,000 worth of slugs. Undaunted, Leverone and his engineers installed magnets to winnow out iron slugs, developed a three-fingered scanning device to reject slugs with holes in them. To reject more sophisticated slugs, he inserted a small anvil in his machines just below the coin slot; coins that were either too hard or too soft bounced off the anvil into slots leading to the coin-return chute. When cheaters dis covered slugs with just the right bouncing qualities, Leverone's engineers countered with electrical devices to test conductiv...
...anxieties and hallucinations. And yet, curiously, life in its deepest expressions was on Norma Jeane's side-perhaps had always been on her side. The sensitivity which made her feel so deeply the shocks of her childhood was countered by a set of instincts as solid as an anvil. She took blows that would have smashed many people, and she cracked a little, but she did not fall apart. And always there was that traffic-jamming, production-stopping hunk of woman that the scared little girl inhabited...
...Medrodus, his heir apparent, and at his side hangs a lustrous sword (Excalibur of old), sole remaining symbol of legal Roman power. No Lady of the Lake hands Artos the sword; he filches it. When Medrodus protests, Artos sinks the sword deep in an oak bole (instead of the anvil imbedded in stone of Malory's story), and after a grunt-and-sweat match, Medrodus fails to draw it out and Artos succeeds. Picking up a few tricks from the new company he keeps, Medrodus knifes old Ambrosius in the bath, and pricks his own veins in blood brotherhood...
...Anvil Books (Van Nostrand), all originals, with such no-nonsense titles as Making of the Modern French Mind by Hans Kohn and The Age of Reason by Louis L. Snyder...
Gloomy Surprise. As they do whenever an internal emergency requires, the Kremlin's leaders thus callously abandoned a foreign policy line that had scored considerable gains. With Molotov's words, the dovecote sound of Malenkov's "coexistence" and "good life" line gave way to the anvil clank of the old Stalinesque "tough" line. The first outside reaction was gloomy surprise. The London Stock Exchange dipped at the news. Columnist Stewart Alsop concluded that the Kremlin had made up its mind that "war is probable if not inevitable." Former Under Secretary of State Walter Bedell Smith, once Ambassador...