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...above stateside rates for equivalent jobs are the lures. A surprising number intend to stay for a couple of contracts (two years each), save up enough to buy a motel back home. But the limited consolations of loneliness are a deterrent to savings accounts: some pretty rugged poker and crap games spring up in the bachelor camps. For men with families-there are now 3,400 wives and children with Aramco and its associated U.S. contractors-the air-conditioned houses, the tennis courts and swimming pools have made life increasingly livable...
Himself a longtime newsman (Philadelphia Record, New York Post), Author Grafton has found no startling truths about big crime-his plot in the end becomes downright hokum-but he offers many fascinating insights: how it feels before a holdup, the psychology of crap shooting, the relaxed domesticity enjoyed by the off-duty criminal. He can also be quietly amusing, as when he compares a detective's carefully indirect questions about a robbery ("I hear some pals stopped in to see you last night") to a modern poet who must find "some oblique and more beautiful way of indicating what...
After only two months in college, Gambler Murchison was caught in a crap game. He was told he could stay if he signed a no-craps pledge. But Murchison would not make such a promise; he returned to Athens as a teller in his father's bank. Instead of staying in his cage, Clint spent most of his time drinking coffee and drumming up business at the corner drugstore. He could not be bothered counting small change that was not included in the bank's legal reserves. But a bank inspector reasoned differently, ordered Murchison to count every...
...good deal more real than what they are, makes the special idiom they talk most real of all. Author Conrad regards Gulf Stream North as the completion of an "idiom trilogy" that began with Scottsboro Boy and continued with Rock Bottom. When the men of the Moona Waa Togue "crap up the captain" (praise him), sing their work chanteys ("Who emptied out the bottles from hea-a-ven-n-n, and let the rain fall down-w-w-n-n?"), or joke about the odor of their cargo ("Mellow, eh fellow . . . Real mellow, fellow"), their talk seems the bonus catch...
...taxes. He held up a book written by Douglas, onetime college economics instructor, in which Douglas advised against deficit financing when unemployment is under 6%. "Not five and a half," said Millikin, "not four, not seven. It must be six. It is as though the Senator was shooting crap and calling for a number; six is the number...