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...Falstaff is her favorite character because "he's an exaggerator." Her little brother Richard idly remarked that the sun shining on the roof generated the same heat as 140 tons of soft coal. "Bi tuminous or lignite?" countered Brother David. Richard changed the subject to an 1865 coin that his mother owns. When Daniel recalled 1865 as the year of Jean Sibelius' birth. "They talk awfully good," says their neighbor Susan Rule, 8. "But they're just not hep." A neighborhood mother marvels at Mrs. Trifan, says: "I'm glad to get my kids...
With the dependability of a two-faced coin or a doctored roulette wheel, Americans each year lose between $20 billion and $30 billion on gambling-but they never lose interest. The lure of winnings without work is so powerful that neither moral censure, nor restrictive legislation, nor the tears of race-track widows-let alone mere losses-has ever been able to dampen it. Gambling has bred crime and corruption; it has also financed wars, built schools and churches, and, on Wall Street, produced something called People's Capitalism. "Gambling," a congressional committee once said, "is the lifeblood...
...staff or guest, found his luggage packed." That was going a little far, thought Getty, even while reiterating that "there should be discipline in money matters, as in all things." Last week the five-time divorced tycoon installed his own form of Sutton Place discipline: a pay phone. "The coin box," chuckled Billionaire Getty, "should take care of things...
Getting up from the dinner table one evening last week, a family in suburban Toronto could break out the Remy Martin, drop three fifty-cent pieces into a coin box and watch Menotti's opera The Consul. It was a superb production, prepared especially by a Broadway company with Patricia Neway in her original role...
While Toronto's 13-month-old pay-TV experiment was thus moving from movies and sports to more ambitious programs, "fee-vee" was ready to pick up the coin elsewhere. The Federal Communications Commission has approved a three-year test of pay TV in Hartford, Conn., where subscribers will get 40 hours a week of first-run Hollywood films, Broadway plays, live opera and sports. Other tests are scheduled for Liberal, Kans., Little Rock, the New York area and Hawaii...