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Today the roughly 2,000,000 Basques are an industrious, aggressive people, with a passion for gambling, especially during Sunday matches of jai alai. They speak a highly inflected language, which has some 175 verb suffixes and is unrelated to any Indo-European tongue. Those who live on the French side of the border are poor agricultural people, and many of them have been moving to Paris, Bordeaux and other cities. But the four Basque provinces of Spain (Vizcaya, Álava, Guipúzcoa and Navarra) are among the country's richest. Through the centuries many Basques have gone...
Miami expects just that. Lately even the girls have taken to requesting professional football tickets in lieu of cold cash. Like everyone else in town, they know that the hottest action around is not on the jai-alai courts or out at Hialeah, but in the Orange Bowl. There the Miami Dolphins are grinding up National Football League opponents like so many herring. And irony of ironies, the undisputed hero of sybaritic, leisure-loving Miami is the leader of the Dolphin pack, Coach Don Shula, 42, a rock-jawed, Jesuit-trained disciplinarian who would seem to fit the city...
...Indonesian capital of Djakarta, the municipal government last year took in $6,000,000, a third of its revenue, from three licensed casinos, numerous slot machines, horse racing, greyhound races, jai alai and a local lottery. The Casino Pix, located on the 13th floor of the Sarinah Department Store, is hardly plush as casinos go. The clients are apt to shun tie and jacket for open sports shirts. There is no alcohol, no floor show, no music-but big winners are provided with a ride home to protect their cash. "Elsewhere it is the bandits who benefit," says Djakarta...
...five hours' sleep." Asked what the toughest feature of the Greater New Orleans Open course was, he answered: "Bourbon Street." After tying for first place in the National Airlines Open in Miami last year, he stayed up half the night drinking beer and betting on jai alai. Next day, teeing up for his play-off with Bob Menne, he said: "Shoot, I was just coming in this morning when he was getting up. Man, a guy can get loo much rest." The psych worked. On the second hole, Menne lipped out a 2-ft. putt for a bogey, and Trevino...
...Other players say that the sickle stick helps them to scoop the puck off the boards and, by cradling it inside the curve, shield it from the goalie's vision. This new-found control, which is roughly similar to that afforded by the lacrosse stick or the jai-alai cesta, has worked wonders for such so-so scorers as Ranger Vic Hadfield, who has already scored more goals this season than he has in seven previous seasons in the N.H.L...