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...pack up and go home." Then he turns intensely serious. "We can't change too often though. It costs too much money." He picks from his desk a child's china bank in the shape of a rocket. When he puts a nickel in the slot, the coin falls right out through the open bottom. "A friend gave me this," he says, "to keep me thinking about the taxpayers' money...
...Like It and Macbeth were on the boards last week. Most Los Angeles theaters are the small-capacity off-Broadway type (locally called "off Vine") that run smoothly on three-quarters of a shoestring and will try almost anything but a new play. Few make money, but some coin it. Two small L.A. theaters recently reported box-office receipts of $1,000,000 between them over the past two seasons...
...Caudillo himself has mellowed, but he has lost none of the crafty skill or un derlying steel. Every coin of the nation still bears his image and the words. "Chief of Spain by the Grace of God." Puritani cal and pious, he sometimes prays for hours in his private chapel in Pardo pal ace before making major decisions ; to in duce night-loving, late-eating Spaniards to follow his own early-to-bed habit, he has ordered Madrid restaurants and cafes to stop serving food after midnight...
...Instant Photo Vendor, introduced by Quik-Chek Electronics and Photo Corp. The customer places his negative (from 35 mm. to size 120 roll-film) under a glass cover, sets the opening of the enlarging lens according to a number indicated by a built-in exposure meter, and puts a coin in the slot. In 15 seconds, out comes a black-and-white glossy blowup, practically dry. Enlargements four times the negative size can be made. Price per picture...
When the air was finally clear of flying dancers, the audience rose and gave the performers the old Sol Hurok Opening Night Locomotive. The dancers applauded back with enthusiasm. The reviews glowed. Box offices along the company's 16-city cross-continent route rang to the clink of coin. As for Impresario Hurok himself, his restless eye was probably already roving the map of Russia that was included in the official program. A ballet troupe from Monchegorsk, perhaps? Or sword dancers from Pinsk...