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...billion-a-year vending machine industry, has brought an unprecedented demand for coins. U.S. mints have tripled their output since 1962, but they cannot meet demand. Everybody feels the pinch: Las Vegas gambling operators have reluctantly substituted plastic chips for shining stacks of silver dollars; bankers in several cities swap dollar bills for 980 in coins, and the Federal Reserve reported last week that retailers are buying coins from big-time hoarders at black-market prices...
Saturday's announcement of plans for the new International Studies building on the site of Lawrence Hall has reopened the possibility of a land swap between Harvard and Cambridge...
...line of computers (called Spectra 70s) with integrated circuits that it claims are faster and cheaper to make than the transistor circuits that run most computers. Next, it signed a ten-year agree ment with West Germany's giant electronics and computer company, Siemens & Halske, to swap patent licenses and technical data in a bid to compete with General Electric in Europe...
Last week Sarnoff arranged another alliance with potentially vast consequences. In what would be a $140 million stock swap, he offered to absorb Prentice-Hall Inc. of Englewood Cliffs, N.J., a leading publisher of textbooks and specialized business literature. Although Prentice-Hall's 1963 sales of $68.4 million are dwarfed by RCA's $1.78 billion gross revenues, the merger could result in revolutionary advances in communications and teaching methods by linking electronics with the printed word -for instance, computer-controlled printing at fantastic speeds delivered electrically to homes and offices...
...takes place on a suspension bridge, and the plot is a shoestring. A beatnik's beatnik, Harry Berlin (Alan Arkin), is poised for a suicidal leap. Up comes natty Milt Manville (Eli Wallach), who recognizes him as a onetime classmate at Poly-Arts U. They swap case histories. Harry tells a tale of existential woe that started when a fox terrier mistook his pant leg for a hydrant: "I was nauseous, sick to my soul, I became aware . . . aware of the whole rotten senseless stinking deal." Mimed in outrageously funny fashion by Alan Arkin, Harry is so sick that...