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...glorification of horses and we'll be eating human rather than horse meat at our friendly fast-food dispensers. By the way, don't bet on Seattle Slew in the Belmont Stakes. Rumor has it that the odds are going to be so low that if Slew wins, the bettor pays the track...
...sooner is an interception thrown, a lay-up missed, a touchdown pass dropped or a home run hit than the screams of a fix come pouring out from the spectators and arm-chair quarterbacks. And any bettor worth his weight can give you scores of "positive" examples of fixed games. (Call me, I've got some beauties...
...nation to date has virtually ignored the problem of the compulsive gambler. The only federal funds allotted to treatment of the hopelessly addicted bettor are some $330,000 a year spent by the Veterans Administration. Dr. Robert Custer, who as chief of the VA's mental-services division has made a close study of the subject, points out that there is now no funding whatever for research into gambling addiction, as there is for alcoholism. He suggests that psychological research and treatment of the obsessive gambler could be financed by a small portion?say, .5%?of the revenue that...
...course: polls have indicated that 31 million Americans wager some $15 billion annually on the outcome of N.F.L. games. But the N.F.L. argues that any wagering, legal or not, carries a potential of trouble. Says League Commissioner Pete Rozelle: "The world knows no less rational person than a losing bettor...
...minds have been attracted to it: Freud, Einstein, Jung, Edison. The paranormal may exist, against logic, against reason, against present evidence and beyond the standard criteria of empirical proof. Perhaps there are reasons why the roll of the dice and turn of the cards sometimes appear to obey the bettor's will. Perhaps the laws of probability are often suspended. Perhaps Geller and other magicians can indeed force metal to bend merely because they will it. Perhaps photographs can be projected by the mind. Perhaps plants think...