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Ordinary gambling ought to be one of the hardest industries to monopolize, because almost anybody can compete, whether in taking bets or providing cards, dice, or racing information. "Wire services" could not stand the ordinary competition of radio and Western Union; bookmakers could hardly be intimidate if the police were not available to intimidate them. If ordinary brokerage firms were encouraged to take accounts and buy and sell bets by telephone for their customers, it is hard to see how racketeers could get any kind of grip on it. And when any restaurant or bar or country club or fraternity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIME and ECONOMICS: | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

...have been doing a brisk business in gifts ranging from toilet kits to packages of fruit, cheese and nuts. Detroit's Hudson's has been advertising a $9.95 "fun kit" for use at the rest-and-recreation areas that contains a case of poker chips, checkers, cards, dice, two empty 12-oz. flasks, a drink mixer, two jiggers, a bottle opener and a score pad. The U.S. Post Office no longer guarantees parcel post delivery by Christmas Day but a present airmailed before Dec. 10 should still reach Viet Nam with Donder and Blitzen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: No, You're Not Dreaming; It's Already Christmastime | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

...Genovese mob, Carlo ("Don Carlo") Gambino, 64, heir to the late Albert Anastasia's operations, plus ten other bigwigs. The D.A. wanted them to sing before a grand jury on crime in Queens, and a judge set bail at $100,000 each to help clear their throats. No dice. A friendly bondsman put up $1,300,000 for bail, the grand jury got nothing but grunts, and then it was back to La Stella's for that delayed lunch: escarole in brodo, linguini in clam sauce, striped bass, and wine. And just to show no hard feelings, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 7, 1966 | 10/7/1966 | See Source »

...lieutenant (James Coburn) who possessed a unique gift for bringing disorder out of chaos. And remember the no-neck sergeant (Aldo Ray) who hollered so loud he scared the roaches out of the popcorn? Not to mention all those dogfaces from Flatbush who seldom shot anything more dangerous than dice, and when anybody said "tanks" respectfully replied "yuh welcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: S.O.P. | 9/16/1966 | See Source »

...fact, that the Administration could rewrite the provision to overcome his opposition. After a recent two-hour session during which Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach sought to find some language that would be acceptable, Dirksen finally told him: "Nick, it's just no dice. I see no out that doesn't violate principle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: The Corkscrew Compromise | 7/8/1966 | See Source »

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