Word: blackjacks
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...Mexico, bulky Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and consul general, celebrated the New Year with friends at the resort town of Cuernavaca. As the group drank up to "Viva Roosevelt" and "Viva Camacho," ten heel-clicking Germans Heil-Hitlered, split open Neruda's head with a blackjack. Next day five Mexican politicos formally offered to duel with the Nazis...
Everybody knows what is right about Bobby Riggs's game. He plays tennis like a professional blackjack dealer. He doesn't hit hard, but he thinks hard and fast. And he has control like an expert rifleman. In the final, Powerhouse Kovacs was too much for Riggs in the first set, 7-5. Then temperamental Mr. Kovacs' game blew up. He looked as though he preferred to be almost anywhere but on a tennis court. Riggs easily dealt him out of the next three sets, 6-1, 6-3, 6-3, and so got another national championship...
...crowd realized it had been tricked out of seeing the U. S. Vice President-elect. In blind fury they charged the Embassy steps. A brawl ensued. A policeman by mistake slugged U. S. Naval Attaché for Air Commander Wallace M. Dillon on the crown with a blackjack. A bemused Mexican singled out huge, tough U. S. Military Attaché Lieut. Colonel Gordon H. McCoy to sock on the chin and was flattened by the colonel for his pains. There were indications that the riot was not altogether spontaneous. U. S. Intelligencers on the spot positively identified three...
...voted for billions in emergency Defense appropriations. Last week he announced that conscription should be delayed until there is an emergency. For good measure, Guy Gillette also devised a new definition of military training: "This idea of letting the boys sit around for a year playing stud poker and blackjack is poppycock...
...faced, rawboned Uncle Bud Russell, 62, is Texas' prison agent. Armed to the teeth (two six-shooters, two gas guns, blackjack, brass knuckles), he likes to ride his convicts to jail with a submachine gun between his knees, has done so to some 100,000 of them in 35 years...