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...complains of the state of his personal exchequer, says he was attracted to the role partly because "the villains are the tax gatherers." In another effort to make ends meet, Welles can be seen on closed-circuit TV at Caesars Palace explaining the intricacies of craps, baccarat, roulette and blackjack to fledgling high rollers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 8, 1979 | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

Kenneth Uston resigned as a $42,500-a-year senior vice president of the Pacific Stock Exchange four years ago to become a professional blackjack player. He is good. Too good for the casinos to handle. Uston is known as a "counter," because he can keep track of the cards so well that he can determine if those remaining will tip the odds in his favor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Catch-21 | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...analysis of genius and you get a few dollars' worth of chemicals. Like his wife, he practices Transcendental Meditation, reads a lot, frequently about psychic phenomena, and lives fairly simply. He likes to play tennis and ski with the children. In London he enjoys an occasional evening of blackjack at a casino, and driving fast in a Kermit-green Lotus through the English countryside. Although Jim is away from the family home in Bedford, N.Y.. for almost six months of each year, the Henson marriage seems to be anything but the disposable show business model. Jim and Jane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Man Behind the Frog | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...occur in the best of families. Tabloid readers lapped up a recent court case involving the Duchess of Bedford's daughter-in-law, a sultry Iranian high roller named Kitty Milinaire, who in an epic three-year binge frittered away a $6 million fortune at chemin de fer, blackjack and practically anything else at which she could try her diamond-decorated hand. Charged with stealing jewels taken out on approval from Cartier, Kitty, 39, was acquitted by a jury after her defense lawyer scored a decisive point: given her notoriety as a compulsive gambler, who could believe that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: In the Chips | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

...Atlantic City, N.J., but in a rough region 75 miles or more to the east. There, 39 companies have anted up $1.1 billion for leases to drill for oil and gas deep under the sea. While there is nearly a fifty-fifty chance of winning at blackjack, the odds of striking black gold offshore are 1 in 10-and there have been a lot of losers. Last month Continental Oil Co., having drilled a 12,000-ft. dry hole in the Baltimore Canyon off the Jersey shore, capped the test site and wrote off the $4 million loss. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Dry Holes and Discoveries | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

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