Word: blackjacking
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...months later found Boston Joey in New York at the Guys and Dolls pool room in Times Square. He began popping greenies, he got involved with a woman, and he persisted in playing in a crooked blackjack game. But he did play good pool. He beat Steve Mizerack two sessions of nine ball, one for $500 in New York and one for $300 in New Jersey. Mizerack's the current United States straight pool champion. And Joey...
...years ago, Black Jack, Mo., was bucolic farmland, a crossroads settlement that took its name from a stand of blackjack oak trees that once shaded farmers on their way to market in St. Louis, 15 miles to the north. All of this changed in the '60s with the arrival of the subdividers and developers who cut many of the farms into lots, built ranch and split-level houses in the $30,000 to $35,000 price range. Soon Black Jack was engulfed by the white exodus to the suburbs. Now the town is in the middle of a controversy...
...self-repairing computer is not entirely foolproof. It could not, for example, cope with a flurry of failures that knocked out parts faster than they could be replaced. But in most test situations, STAR has proved a stellar performer. On one occasion, J.P.L. scientists taught it to play blackjack, then momentarily shut down its electrical power, hoping to unsettle the computer brain. No luck. STAR immediately revived, tersely acknowledged the disruption, resumed the game exactly where it had left...
...counter culture is anathema in Vegas. Hang around the blackjack tables and you'll see that the greening of America has very little to do with determined little plants poking their heads through concrete vistas. Vegas was to have a rock festival last July, a bone-dry echo of Woodstock was all set to grit its teeth against the drifting sands while digging into an abandoned airfield on the edge of town. The town fathers moved quickly to see that it never came...
...even to go to church"; Messaros says he straps his holster on before he brushes his teeth. "Fear is something in your mind that has to be overcome," Messaros says. Boston is equally stoic: "Hell, I could die tomorrow at the movies." Still, both feel that their equipment-pistol, blackjack, nightstick, helmet-could be improved upon by putting a sawed-off shotgun in their car. No need to point it at anyone, they say-"just that you come out of the car, and it comes with...