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...attendants in orange-and-green plaid suits dispensed drinks from airline-style carts in the aisles, one railroad buff marveled: "Look, not even a ripple on my Beaujolais...
...Fleming's novel Moonraker, Multimillionaire Hugo Drax built himself a huge rocket to annihilate the city of London. He was foiled in his sinister strategems by James Bond, Agent 007. Now a businessman space buff named Gary Hudson is trying some rather far-out capitalism of his own, with a plan to start putting satellites into orbit from a private launching pad in Texas by 1983. So far, not even the U.S. Government is trying to stop...
...stopped momentarily to check the address and phone number of a woman he was planning to audition as part of his talent business. Given permission to search his 1974 Plymouth station wagon, officers found a four-band, two-way radio. Williams, an electronics and short-wave radio buff, had been arrested (but not convicted) in 1976 for impersonating a police officer, having equipped his car with red lights beneath the front grille. This time nothing was confiscated, and Williams was let go. He was, however, placed under surveillance and, according to some sources, an electronic tracking device was placed...
...Uston read Beat the Dealer, a 1962 book by Mathematician Edward Thorp, the "father" of card counting. Uston, a statistics, mathematics and computer buff, was fascinated, and while still serving as a pillar of the West Coast financial establishment, began imagining himself a buckaroo blackjack hero. For six years he worked feverishly to acquire the necessary skills, practicing rigorous memory drills and doing complex statistical calculations. In 1974 he went to Harrah's Casino in Reno to put himself to the test. He won $3,000 and never looked back...
Nore spent his childhood years being dumped on a variety of kindly people. He does not know who his father was. His mother died of drugs. For one happy period of his childhood, he lived with a couple of male photographers, and became a lifelong camera buff. At one point, he was also left with a racehorse trainer and learned the steeplechasing dodge. "Things had happened to me all my life," he says...