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...parlor in Reno in 1937, and has been a winner ever since. One key to his success is that gambling odds inevitably favor the house-a 4% to 7% advantage on slot machines, for example. Still, Harrah takes pains to make losing attractive, like hiring comely college girls as blackjack dealers. But the company's biggest edge is sound management. Harrah's 6,500 employees are organized into 42 departments, which are administered by carefully recruited professional managers. Experts have compiled operational manuals for every job from busboy to croupier, and even fingerprints on glass doors are quickly...
...latter particularly reflect the influence of nearby Las Vegas. The Joker's Wild offers giant slot machines that inform players of their question categories and winnings. Gambit is a variation on blackjack, while High Rollers is essentially a dice game with questions worked in. There are more celebrities -and more well known-on the L.A. shows. A huge pool of talent whose prime-time series have been canceled are glad to pick up this bargain-basement work. The computerlike electronics of the score-keeping on these shows is probably a fallout from the region's interest in space...
...laboratory assistant to Biologist Robert Macy, who has described her as "interested in drugs and consciousness-raising-type pursuits." In February 1973, her six-year marriage to Black Pianist Gilbert Scott Perry broke up, and she began a drifting, seemingly aimless existence, working variously as a topless blackjack dealer in a North Beach nightclub and selling soft drinks from an outdoor stand. On Jan. 10 she fled a rented house in suburban Concord used by the S.L.A. as a headquarters, after trying to set fire to the contents, which included BB guns and maps which showed abandoned mines and ranger...
...Nichols, 54, and a black state senator, Coleman Young, 55, as candidates for mayor. Nichols, who campaigns with a pistol tucked in his belt, stressed law-and-order and drew 98% of the white vote. Young, who at times carries a pistol of his own, called his opponent "Blackjack Nichols" and promised to end heavyhanded police tactics in minority neighborhoods. He drew 98% of the black vote. Since Detroit has slightly more white voters than black, Nichols was favored to win the election...
...bludgeon murder of a 15-year-old Brooklyn girl, eleven of the arresting detectives were given $50 bonds by a grateful neighborhood association. Few, including the jury, paid any attention to Williams' claim that his confession came after he had been beaten with "a blackjack, a rubber hose and a club" and burned with "lighted cigarettes and cigars." Sentenced to death, Williams was held in jail for 16 years before a federal court of appeals ruled that his confession had been coerced. Since then he has been fighting to recover damages for his years of imprisonment. (He once came...