Word: blackjacking
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...chilly London night. Inside a Georgia accent interrupted the click of chips and slap of cards. "Hey, Doc, you got a winning pill?" Doc looked back across the table. His reply was short and savage: "I'd be taking it myself." Then Doc turned back to the blackjack table. He lost $240 in the next four minutes...
...most forms of gambling for money-in a private club-for the first time in 100 years. The law specified that games played must not have odds favoring the house. So, paying at least lip service to the rule, the bank at roulette and craps and the deal at blackjack are offered to players (although in practice, few individuals feel rich enough to play against the whole table). The clubs, instead of taking a cut of winnings, charge membership fees that range from $1.40 to $115 (depending on how "exclusive" the club), and playing fees collected before a game begins...
...Missile Site 373-4, nestled among blackjack oaks in the Ozark foothills ten miles northwest of Searcy, Ark., had been out of operation for nearly six weeks. While the 174-ft.-deep silo, one of 54 Titan II sites in the U.S., underwent repairs to its air conditioning, plumbing and exhaust systems, its nuclear warhead was in storage at Little Rock Air Force Base, 55 miles away. The missile itself, a five-story, 18,000-m.p.h. Titan II of the type that is scheduled to launch this week's eight-day Gemini mission, remained in place as 55 civilian...
Oklahoma officials were predictably angry at the blacklisting. Governor Henry Bellmon, who had campaigned on a platform of no new taxes, demanded a halt to the "blackjack tactics"-but he promised that wages would be upped despite the "disgusting, distasteful and disgraceful" action. The legislature is debating a proposal to raise $25 million in new money, but N.E.A. thought that sum insufficient. Already, systems in the 36 states that pay more than Oklahoma have lured 500 teachers away; N.E.A. officials estimated that 10% of the state's 24,200 teachers might be lost by September...
Ever since their first tender meeting at a Las Vegas blackjack table four years ago, Phyllis McGuire, 34, youngest of the three singing McGuire Sisters, has been the constant companion of Chicago Mobster Sam Giancana, 56. So it was inevitable that the Chicago federal grand jury investigating Giancana's crime syndicate would ask her to sing a little. Phyllis warbled for 1 hr. 15 min., reportedly telling all about their jaunts to Europe and the Caribbean but denying any knowledge of Sam's gangland affairs. And she kept right on chattering to reporters saying that "my family...