Word: blackjacking
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...machine operators, have made a pampered and all but adored child of the computer. Not content with having it perform wondrous feats in space and on earth, they are constantly trying to extend its capabilities. In the experimental milieu they have created, they have taught computers to play ticktacktoe, blackjack, checkers and a passable game of chess, instructed it to compose avant-garde music (the Illiac Suite at the University of Illinois), write simple TV westerns and whodunits, and even try its hand at beatnik poetry. Example...
...this very moment your front group in America, the Student Nonviolent Chinese Communists, are carrying out your orders to blackjack the Johnson Administration into sending government troops into the sovereign state of Alabama, whose courageous struggle for independence in the last century was so brutally crushed by your own Abe Lin-coln, and which under the brave leadership of the Wallace Lama is now engaged in a life and death struggle to preserve its quaint indigenous way of life from utter destruction at the hands of your agents, the Northern aggressors. All this to cover up your ruthless invasion...
...Control Section trains and licenses the croupiers, sends inspectors to watch all tables and settle all arguments-usually in favor of the customer. Casinos are prohibited from advertising, serving liquor or accepting bets beyond certain limits. The top is $100 per roll for dice, $50 for a hand of blackjack and $20 on a roulette number...
Businessmen who crowded into San Francisco's Civic Auditorium last week tried their hand at playing blackjack against a computer. They inevitably lost, for the machine has not only broken the bank at Las Vegas in a test, but also outwits comptrollers and architects in performing such practically profitable jobs as laying out real estate subdivisions. Dozens of other whirring and flashing machines demonstrated how they simulate Gemini space flights, balance million-dollar corporate ledgers in a split second, or tap out a frighteningly human message-"Oh, that tickles"-in response to a rap on the keyboard. Such...
That spelled trouble. On the first Freedom Day on Sept. 14, a local white citizen had beaten a COFO photographer over the head with a blackjack and smashed his $250 camera...