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Following President Reagan's philosophy that private enterprise can do most things better than the Government, the Treasury Department announced last week that it has enlisted a private company to boost the lackluster business in U.S. gold medallions. The coins, previously sold only by the Postal Service, will now be distributed by J. Aron & Co., a Manhattan-based precious-metals dealer, and sold by some 3,000 banks, brokerage-house branches and coin shops...
...REPETITION of "heads or tails" in the opening scene of Tom Stoppard's Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are Dead seems ironic, because the play is now worn like an old coin from passing through the hands of so many directors. Although it's been 16 years since its original minting, this weekend's Dunster House performance of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern hasn't lost its edge. The innovation of two Shakespearean anti-heroes on center stage, the stark contrast between Elizabethan and modern language--and the themes of the finality of death, the role of fate and the insignificance of human life...
Currently, all the machines donated by the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), are coin-operated, but once improved coin boxes arrive, the processors will also accept tokens...
Mark Van Baslen '66, manager of data systems, said that the remainder of the processors will be deployed "as soon as we get a small shipment of coin boxes," which will probably not be until the fall...
Students will be able to use the machines 24 hours a day with tokens purchased at the Science Center stock room. The "coin-op" units can be operated free this week, and afterwards will be available for a fee of $3.00 an hour if tokens are used, or $4.00, if coins are used...