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...Gambling casinos have been established in Djakarta by the district's military governor, who has found that slot machines and blackjack are sure and legal ways of financing the city and feeding the troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia: The Army Has It All | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

...computers can play several games, including golf and blackjack. Bossert said the golf game is a "probability sort of thing" while blackjack-which is his favorite-is "a real source of entertainment and education...

Author: By Jeffrey D. Blum, | Title: Harvard Greatly Expands Free Computer Facilities | 10/6/1969 | See Source »

...Blackjack teaches what the machine can do, its limitations, and how it can be put out of commission, he added...

Author: By Jeffrey D. Blum, | Title: Harvard Greatly Expands Free Computer Facilities | 10/6/1969 | See Source »

...face and he went down. He came back up right away and he hit me with this blackjack. I've got a knot the size of a goose egg on my head." That was Idaho's Senator Len B. Jordan reporting a personal encounter with the law-and-order issue in crime-plagued Washington, D.C. The 70-year-old legislator was on his way to a Senate prayer breakfast when he was accosted by a burly young thug in the elevator of his apartment building. The youth demanded Jordan's wallet and watch, but the crusty Republican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 26, 1969 | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

...openings, plus the usual Fourth of July holiday crush, combined to make last week the busiest in Las Vegas' history. Hotels were jammed, switchboards hopelessly overloaded, gamblers stacked six deep at the craps and blackjack tables. TIME Correspondent Jon Larsen and Writer Charles Parmiter were on hand to record the frenetic scene. Their impressions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: LAS VEGAS: THE GAME IS ILLUSION | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

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