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When the rich try to hit it big-or in their case, bigger-they do not go to their neighborhood parish house to play bingo or purchase lottery tickets in a cigar store. Instead, they travel to Kentucky in the summertime and, midst all the splendor of the bluegrass, they buy thoroughbred race horses...
There was an orchestra--Bingo-Bango Playing for us to dance the tango And the people all clapped as we arose For her sweet face and my new clothes...
...center, Jerome Whitehead, quilty of offensive goal-tending. He screams it was a fix. Then the other game: he bets on North Carolina, and North Carolina wins. So he's even, right? Only he gave up two points to Nevada-Las Vegas and Carolina only wins by one. No bingo. He kept telling me about the uncontested layup at the end that cut Carolina's lead. His bookie smiled all the way to the bank...
...gossip about TV stars and sex, mostly sex. Sample headlines: I'LL STILL SHARE A TENT WITH SHARON; GREEN-EYED SEX FIEND IS HUNTED; APACHE STRIP PUTS PARSON ON WARPATH?a story about a male entertainer named Apache who stripped off his clothes while performing at a women's bingo party to raise money to buy a water bed for a priest...
...nation over the past decade. In the early 1960s, outside of Nevada, state-countenanced gambling was almost entirely confined to track betting. Today, 44 states have some form of legalized gambling and the kinds are growing. Legislation to permit new and expanded types of wagering?from jai alai to bingo, dog racing and card rooms ?is pending in 37 states. A few states have even invaded the fertile field of numbers betting, long the exclusive and profitable province of organized crime. Two states, Delaware and Montana, have joined Nevada in providing legal betting on sports events like professional football...