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...risen spectacularly in a declining market. In January, the stock of Universal Match, which rings up 40% of its sales in vending equipment, sold for 83, last week closed at 134¾. Vendo, the largest maker of automatic vending machines, has jumped from 23¾ to 66, while Automatic Canteen, biggest combined food-selling and machine-manufacturing company, rose from...
Varied Menus. Presently out in front is Chicago's Automatic Canteen Co. (1959 gross income: $140.5 million), which both makes and operates vending machines. Automatic Canteen has developed a battery of vending machines that offer a complete snack line including infra-red toasted sandwiches, hot soup, chili, baked beans, pastry, coffee and cigarettes. Says Automatic Canteen Chairman Nathaniel Leverone: "The sales potential in in-plant feeding alone is at least as great as the entire automatic vending business is now." In an industry where profits for operating companies run about 3% of sales after taxes, Automatic Canteen expects...
...mild laxative." When contents of two suspect shakers were analyzed, their salt was found mixed with 2.36% by weight of atropine, a deadly white, crystalline alkaloid poison made of the nightshade plant. For adults, as little as 10 mg. of atropine can cause coma, and a salt-hungry canteen customer might presumably have shaken enough on his food to make himself pretty sick. "Tragedies were prevented," said Hazelhoff...
Blob & Prosper. Ten years ago, at 28, he got his first art commission, a mural depicting "Children Begging" for the Amsterdam city-hall canteen. Lunching civil servants said it upset their digestion, hurled butter pats at it. The resulting controversy made him famous...
...practicing Catholic of "good" family. All are unmarried (except officers); all must sign up for five years of long, lonely hours patrolling Vatican corridors; only a lucky few draw outdoor posts. Fraternization with civilians is forbidden. The guards worship in their own chapel in Vatican City, have their own canteen, even their own cemetery. Pay is low, and there is a 10 p.m. curfew in summer, 9 p.m. in winter...