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...most do-they can go away at least feeling that they have had a fair shake. Then abruptly last week Nevada's gambling industry found its image marked with two black eyes; the state Gaming Control Board closed the big Lake Tahoe Hotel Casino after detecting crooked dice-the second casino in a month to be shut down for running a rigged crap game...
Tipped off that heavy losses were being racked up at the Lake Tahoe Hotel, agents from the Nevada attorney general's office infiltrated the dice game, stood in at the table for over an hour as one customer plunged deeper and deeper. The man they were watching was the stickman running the game, Clayton Gatterdam, 47, whom they spotted handling the dice instead of moving them with his stick, and occasionally reaching into his apron pockets between rolls. When the agents pounced, they found four pairs of mis-spotted dice in secret compartments in Gatterdam's apron...
...complex and terribly competitive," says Bill Parks. "It's a great challenge because there are so many variables: the wind, the weather, water conditions, other boats. You have to tune your boat, get the optimum performance out of it. Even then, it's a roll of the dice." And while the dice are in the air, anyone-for one brief Mittyesque moment-can be Bus Mosbacher, sailing out of Newport for the America...
...Regrets. Mosbacher graduated cum laude from Choate, went on to Dartmouth, where he majored in economics, settled for C's, became known as a deft hand with a bridge deck and dice, and led the varsity sailing club to two straight national intercollegiate championships. Commissioned an ensign in the Navy in 1943, he applied for the Small Craft Training Center in Miami. The Navy, in its infinite wisdom, sent him to radar school instead, but Bus finally wrangled a transfer to the carrier Liscome Bay-a transfer that fell through when doctors found he had a hernia...
...years ago, modeled after A.A. In chapters in 80 cities, regular group-therapy sessions pile up endless case histories of gambling victims. One compulsive gambler tells of robbing his children's piggy bank and selling pints of his blood so he could have one more fling at the dice; another recalls how he absconded with the money for his father's funeral and blew it on the ponies. "You act just like a kid," explains Sidney L. of Washington. "You go along thinking when you hit it big you'll get the wife a mink coat, then...