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When Ronald Reagan in April lifted the partial grain embargo against the Soviet Union that had been imposed by Jimmy Carter 16 months earlier, it was clear that the U.S. was willing to sell its harvest surplus. Not so certain was whether Moscow was willing to buy, and, if so...
That was Campo's big break. He started as a groom, and after four years Neloy promoted him to assistant trainer -and full-time protégé. In hopes of smoothing some of Campo's rough edges, Neloy went so far as to enroll him in a...
By then, of course, another retrograde idea was dusted off and heralded as the next great undergraduate breakthrough--and in 1975, 30 years after Conant's committee had prepared the Red Book, the Core was formulated. When Dean Rosovsky's committee came to the conclusion that Gen Ed had degenerated...
Wiggins confessed to the rip-off in a statement to the bank, though he pleaded that it all began when he promised a loan to an unqualified customer. At the same time, confirmed Peck, he deeded over all his assets to Allied, and even agreed to a bank demand that...
In 1968 Uston read Beat the Dealer, a 1962 book by Mathematician Edward Thorp, the "father" of card counting. Uston, a statistics, mathematics and computer buff, was fascinated, and while still serving as a pillar of the West Coast financial establishment, began imagining himself a buckaroo blackjack hero. For six...