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...maybe, but at least truckers and dirt farmers on a night out. But it's just a row of dirty book stores and porno booths, privacy ensured, and the old auditorium, Ryman's, which used to be the Grand Ole Opry in better days, looks like a church turned bingo hall. The Ernest Tubb Record Store is only a dingy Woolworth's--lines of cheap cowboy boots and tumbled boxes of western shirts, old George Wallace Speaks records, trick glasses that look like they're full of beer but when you pretend to spill it on someone the beer stays...
...loss of port facilities in Greece and Turkey also means that the Sixth Fleet has fewer "bingo fields," airstrips ashore to which carrier planes can divert in emergencies or bad weather. In addition, the new political situation creates morale problems for seamen, who will be forced to spend more and more time aboard ship without the chance of seeing their families and without liberty in the foreign ports...
With dogged zeal, Alderman William Singer, 34, has visited every public school and transit station and nearly every supermarket, bowling alley and bingo parlor in Chicago during his 16-month campaign to defeat five-term Mayor Richard Daley in next week's primary. At many of the stops, city employees-among them transit workers, policemen and firemen-have been sidling up to offer encouragement to the maverick Democrat. "Lotsa luck, Alderman. We're with you," are words often heard. That people who owe their jobs to Daley's political machine would even cautiously express such support...
Attla, a veteran on the sled-dog circuit that has grown to 400 races a season, made close to $20,000 last year in purses. (The money is raised by such diverse off-season activities as bingo and potluck suppers.) He finds the kicks at least as compelling as the cash. "There's no other sport," he says, "where you have to control 16 animals at one time." There is probably no other winter sport so expensive either. A beginner itching to compete in the "unlimited class" (seven or more dogs) can expect to spend...
Harrah, a tall, slim man with a taste for clothes tailored in Beverly Hills and Rome, opened a bingo parlor in Reno in 1937, and has been a winner ever since. One key to his success is that gambling odds inevitably favor the house-a 4% to 7% advantage on slot machines, for example. Still, Harrah takes pains to make losing attractive, like hiring comely college girls as blackjack dealers. But the company's biggest edge is sound management. Harrah's 6,500 employees are organized into 42 departments, which are administered by carefully recruited professional managers. Experts...