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...allowing for the poet's most destructive enemy-translation-the answer is still no. Quasimodo does not often descend to the banalities of To the New Moon, first published in a Communist paper in celebration of Russia's Sputnik. Mostly he pays in recognizable poet's coin. His world is shrouded in melancholy, in mournful contemplation of man's fate. "Give me sorrow daily bread," and, doubtfully hoping, "perhaps the heart is left us, perhaps the heart . . ." His native Sicily is never far from his thoughts, "warm with tears and mourning," and he wonders "how much...
Last week signs on buses and vending machines made it clear that Yankee coins could go home. Professional coin runners, who used to buy $100 of U.S. silver at border cities with $95-$97 in Canadian currency and then truck it legally across the border, were trying other ways to make a fast dime. The royal mint in Ottawa worked overtime to make enough coins for Canada's needs, for the volume of circulating U.S. coins was down by nearly...
...when the dollars reach parity, Canadian banks may well forget about their coin discount. No one wanted to scare away the visitors, who spent about $350 million in Canada last year. Said one broad-minded British Columbia vending-machine operator: "All I want is coins...
...pointed to little chunks of hot dog previously arranged on the ground, said: "You dropped your meat, son, now just move along." Later, as a carny pressagent, he got interested in singers, profitably managed Gene Austin, Hank Snow and Eddie Arnold before he found the boy with the coin in the groin...
...real boost for the vending boom has come from the improvement in coin-handling devices. Unlike the bad old days in the '30s, today's vending machine is virtually slugproof, returns money if it is empty. The biggest maker of coin-handling devices is National Rejectors, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Universal Match Corp., which is controlled by Frank J. Prince. When Prince took over in 1951, sales were $10.3 million. By acquiring vending companies, Prince brought Universal Match to the forefront of the industry with sales of $72 million, earnings of $3.01 per share...