Word: coins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble. Graziano begins to ricochet between a cluttered cold-water flat and a series of reformatories, pens and Army prisons. Out of jail, he leads his gang of rocks on street forays-stripping tires from parked cars, hijacking trucks, reaching through tenement windows to steal radios, breaking open subway coin machines. In the hands of the police, he is the classic tough. He spits on the floor of the warden's office, grinds out a cigarette on a psychiatrist's hand, gives a careless guard a knee in the groin. At home, he wars with his besotted father...
...company took in $30,000 worth of slugs. Undaunted, Leverone and his engineers installed magnets to winnow out iron slugs, developed a three-fingered scanning device to reject slugs with holes in them. To reject more sophisticated slugs, he inserted a small anvil in his machines just below the coin slot; coins that were either too hard or too soft bounced off the anvil into slots leading to the coin-return chute. When cheaters dis covered slugs with just the right bouncing qualities, Leverone's engineers countered with electrical devices to test conductiv ity, gauges to measure dimensions, gadg...
Says Leverone wryly: "Funny thing about coin machines. When somebody hits on a way to beat them, the news travels coast to coast in a flash...
...thing gonna follow me all around?" Then he stuffed the notice of levy in his suitcase and slowly began to put on his pants. A dime dropped to the floor. The local promoter retrieved it and handed it to Joe. Unsmiling, the Brown ex-Bomber gazed vacantly at the coin. "You payin' me for the night's work...
...anti-Communist Chinese like Kuo feel well-disposed toward the Peking regime, the United States can be more certain than ever that that government will endure. On the brighter side of the coin, however, the West should observe that the Chinese nationalism that moves Kuo to support Peking is quite different from the world communism on which the current Sino-Soviet alliance is based. Consequently there exists a good chance that at some point in the future the paths of Moscow and Peking will divege. One hopes that this event will not occur simply because there are no free nations...