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Boardwalk. Park Place. Ventnor and Atlantic Avenues, not to mention Marvin Gardens. The streets of Monopoly are places of childhood dreams and opportunity, open to anyone with the luck of the dice and a fat enough bankroll to buy there. But not Grosse Pointe and Shaker Heights, Bethesda, Georgetown and San Clemente. They are parts of a new and different game, one in which the color of a buyer's skin may well shut him out of the property he wants, and even drive him off the board...
...outset whether to compete as a white or as a black (though the directions specify that "whites are never the minority"). Blacks start with $10,000 in paper assets, whites with $1 million. As many as nine players move black and white pawns according to the throw of the dice, collecting cash ($50,000 for whites, $10,000 for blacks) every time they complete a circuit of the board. They pay fines (of equal amount, regardless of color) and draw "opportunity" cards from the top of separate, unequal stacks...
...lucks onto an opportunity card that opens the suburbs to him. He may, of course, run into another sort of op portunity card. One that says, for ex ample, "Mayor Daley reelected. You are picked up and taken directly to the police station for interrogation." Or "Draft call. Roll dice. If you roll an even number, you are drafted and sent to Viet Nam-sell all properties...
...Sometimes a jock'll pull a horse," he continued. "If the groom finds out, the jock might get a punch in the mouth. Racing is like dice: you roll craps and you're out; you roll seven or eleven and you're a winner...
...hardest hit is San Juan, where shopkeepers, concessionaires and restaurant owners complain that sales are limping 50% behind last season. The dice tables and roulette wheels in some plush gambling casinos are almost at a standstill. A main part of San Juan's problem is high prices. A double room in a "luxury" hotel runs $40 to $60 a day, not including meals. Stateside newspapers are sold for 30? and a package of Life Savers for 25?. Some hotels have a one dollar extra daily charge simply for having a phone in the room. Despite dwindling revenues, most hotel...