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...Actress Kerr, with steely control, tunes herself like a violin string till she quivers exquisitely at the snapping point; and the dear children are just what Author James imagined-faces that shine like bright new pennies till the watcher begins to wonder uneasily about the other side of the coin...
Like English place names, English coins have an illogic all their own: while there are half crowns, which to foreigners are almost indistinguishable from florins or 2-shilling pieces, crowns are collectors' items. Though many expensive items are still priced by the guinea (1 pound plus 1 shilling), there is no guinea coin or bill...
...present sixpenny bit would thus represent 5 pence and be equivalent to the U.S. nickel, while the half crown would correspond to a quarter. Britons are divided over nomenclature for the new 10-shilling bill. Some want to call it a "Britannia," others a "noble"-after an English coin that was worth 6 shillings and 8 pence in 1461 and, mercifully, was scrapped. No one has yet suggested calling it a dollar...
...National Home Builders convention in Chicago was the "Coffee Butler," a self-cleaning automatic coffeemaker that, at the touch of a button, brews and serves a cup of hot, fresh coffee in a matter of seconds. Produced by the Havajava Manufacturing Corp. of Glendale, Calif., makers of coin-operated coffee machines, the Butler operates like something in a Rube Goldberg dream...
...silver out of its currency-backing reserves. As a first step, he ordered that the 10% of $5 and $10 bills now backed by silver should gradually be replaced by Federal Reserve notes, a move that will ultimately free 500 million ounces of the reserve silver for use in coins. He also promised to ask Congress for authority to discontinue silver backing for $1 and $2 bills. If Congress agrees, the entire 1.7 billion ounces of silver now held as paper currency backing can be used for coins, giving the Treasury enough coin silver for the next 35 years...