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Williams' eyes were black, and there was clotted blood on his face, on his scalp and inside his mouth. Dr. Fournier, thinking the blood covered abrasions caused by a blackjack or brass knuckles, sent his patient to be X-rayed for possible skull fractures. The radiologist took one look at the X-ray print and gasped: "This man has a head full of lead." He had found five low-caliber, low-velocity bullets. Beneath the clotted blood were wounds that could hardly have been caused by anything but bullets...
Patsy tried her hand at blackjack, which she played so successfully, all the while violating every rule, that all the heavies gathered to watch her. One of them walked over to the dealer and asked whether the lady was straight. "Straight?" said the dealer. "She's crazy!" As for Kennedy, he won $65 in two nights and bought a lucky shirt-green with white polka dots. On the last day he had the classic gambler's experience. On the way to the airport, he stopped in the lobby for a last turn at roulette, bet the birthdates...
...Vegas. 4:30 a.m. Muzak oozing. Dice clacking. Slot machines whirring. No clocks. No windows. No chairs -except at the green felt tables. Ray the Shark, middleaged, middle class, Middle West, peeks at cards, puffs cigar, rubs lucky shirt, peeks again and draws another card. Blackjack! Adrenaline pumping, grinning beatificially, he multiplies his bets-and loses. Wife appears, her palms covered with grey metallic sheen from feeding coins to slot machines. "Quick," he whispers, "I'm hot. Give me the money I told you not to give...
...flourishes today because the customers are there. Once considered either the elegant pastime of the rich or the grubby escape of the poor, it is now virtually classless. Who plays which game? Dealers and other psychologists offer only rough generalizations: competitive types favor man-against-man games such as blackjack; intellectual types and women more passive pursuits such as roulette; craps, with its rattles, pitches and shouts of "Baby needs shoes!" attracts the assertive male. As for horseplayers, according to one sociologist, about 60% are lower- and middle-class men who bet long shots "to assert their ability to make...
...fines for violating the victims' civil rights. James Conley, 17, testified that Duke Reynolds had cried, "Nigger, move," that he had moved, and that Reynolds then clubbed him with a stick. Felix Freelon, father of two Negro schoolchildren, said that William Bryant Flanagan had hit him with a blackjack. According to Charles Alexander, 17, Justice of the Peace James R. Ayers had threatened him with a pistol. And Emerald Cunningham, 11, a polio victim who could not run, added that Ayers had chased her, grabbed her dress, pulled her down, kicked her, put a pistol to her head...