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...seems the Stoughton men never liked to pay for phone calls. For several moths they had been spinning pennies into coin slots but finally the phone company caught on and put in a spinproof chute. This didn't work either, as the ingenious men of '53 made over a hundred more penny phone calls before the company pulled the instrument from the wall. One national magazine had a few choice things to say about the incident...
Sitting before the fireplace, Icardi and LoDolce decided not to take a chance on the poison. They tossed a coin. LoDolce lost. He was handed a 9-mm. Beretta automatic, and crept up the stairs. The others followed behind. LoDolce shoved open the door. "What's the matter?" asked Holohan, sitting up in bed. LoDolce fired two shots into the major's head...
...hope of success when he was sent to Yugoslavia last year. His mission was to collect a debt ($226,000) owed to Canada for postwar relief. To his pleased surprise, Marshal Tito amiably agreed to pay back two-thirds of what Yugoslavia owed. He also wowed Sinclair with his coin-trick joke about Stalin...
Tito extended his hands, placed the opposing fingertips together, except for the middle fingers which were bent so that the backs of their second joints stayed in contact. Then he put a coin between his thumbs. "This is the way Britain gives assistance," he said as he parted the thumbs, allowing the coin to drop easily. Then, just as easily, he dropped the coin from between his index fingertips; that, he explained, represented the ready generosity of the U.S. Then, still holding his fingers in the same position, Tito pressed the coin between his third fingers. He tried but could...
...Canada refuses to turn the wanted man over to Tito, the cordial new relations will suffer; if Canada extradites him, Grujicic may not get a fair trial. Grujicic, in Tito's hands, will be like the coin between the third fingers...