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...fill the spot Sir Stafford gave up in the General Assembly, his United Bahamian Party hung on to his seat by the simple expedient of running a Negro. Clearly, the party, if not the man, still has considerable power. "The Bahamians need us," said a smug Bahamian Club croupier. "Tourism couldn't survive without us. Why, the beaches ain't as big as these crap tables...
Eight casinos, all but one operated by foreigners, who give the state 63% of the profits, are now available to foreign visitors-to the disgust of some orthodox party types. "Yugoslavia's flag should be two crossed croupier rakes on a green baize field," grumbled one in print recently. Tourists also like girls, and the Yugoslavs have obliged with unaccustomed socialist thoroughness: striptease acts so exciting and uninhibited that one goggle-eyed Italian journalist reported that "the Yugoslavs have traded Goulash Communism for Pelvis Communism...
...director Jacques Demy tries to support a statement about psychology, love, and the malaise of Western Europe on the spindle of the spinning black wheel. But because Demy presents neither the development of the characters nor the dynamics of the game, we cannot see much above or below the croupier's stubbled chin...
...occasion was the first appearance as auctioneer of Peter Wilson, the 6-ft. 4-in. chairman of Sotheby's of London, who last year bought out Manhattan's Parke-Bernet. Wilson suavely built up the prices with Etonian aplomb. "You have to act like a croupier in a casino," he had explained beforehand. "Not a flash. Not a flicker...
...high-stakes boys at Las Vegas might sneer at such a penny-ante game. But the Puerto Ricans aren't greedy. Says one San Juan croupier: "Every day fresh money arrives by the planeload...