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Jukeboxes played the tune for generations of American teenagers, who fed them coins to hear Glenn Miller, Frank Sinatra and the Beatles. Those music machines, though, are going the way of the malt shops that housed so many of them. Industry experts say that by the end of the '80s the brightly lit boxes may be only a memory. The number of coin-operated players has already shrunk from more than 500,000 in 1976 to some...
Among the few remaining jukebox havens are taverns, especially in the South, where the record players first got their name. Juke was a slang term for disorderly in the coastal area of Georgia and South Carolina. The name stuck to the music machines, although manufacturers prefer to call them coin-operated phonographs. However they are known, the once proud symbols of teen-age America may now be on their way to becoming just collectors' items and sources of nostalgia...
Those familiar two words suggest the appeal of the suicidal America provides crude, coin-operated Magic Theatres for its Steppenwolves, consolation for its lonely citizens. The letters flash by with a large and bright finality that eulogizes the machine's return to programmed peace. The ending taunts the defeated human, America's new opiate lacks the sublimity of Mozart and allows only illusory release. In its cruel and premeditated way, the finish cuts off the little bit of himself that he entrusted to the machine, and leaves only frustration in its place...
...their accounts. As many as 40 banks still neglect to report cash deposits of $10,000 or more, as required by law. And at least four banks, according to law enforcement officials, are controlled by drug dealers. Treasury Department investigators have long suspected that some smaller banks, known as Coin-o-Washes among both cops and criminals, were founded primarily to launder money for the drug trade...
...majored in Engineering and Applied Physics--and he worked hard at it. So hard, that at graduation he could flip a coin: Harvard Law or Harvard Business...