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...Vegas or Puerto Rico just to roll a few legal dice? Grand Bahama Island, a mere 75 miles off Miami, has been granted a ten-year license for a gambling casino, and now Huntington Hartford, 52, wants similar licenses granted to the rest of the Bahamas, including one small dot named Paradise Island (H. Hartford prop.) just off Nassau. It would solve a lot of problems, he says. First he would immediately build 1,000 first-class hotel rooms on Paradise, thus providing jobs for unemployed Bahamians. Then he would give 50% of the net gambling profit to the government...
...contrast to Cardullo's cosmopolitanism, Central War Surplus, at 433 Mass. Ave., is one hundred percent American. Central was founded by former tech sergeant Ralph Glaser, who, with the help of a pair of dice, parlayed his army savings into an amount sufficient to buy a bunch of down sleeping bags from the Government...
...organization provided they get a membership card, pay dues that are taxdeductible, and get away from home at least one night a week. But alcoholics, gamblers and dope addicts who join such organizations as A.A., G.A., and Synanon have a special purpose. To get off the sauce, the dice or the pot, they need will power. And obviously will power languishes in loneliness but thrives in company...
...year. When Harding and Tomson decided to form the company, both were livestock breeders and Harding also acted as U.S. agent for Lloyd's of London's livestock insurance business. "This is a crap-shooting business," says Harding. "We're betting against the roll of the dice." So far, he and Tomson have called the dice pretty well. Since 1954, American Livestock's annual premium volume has nearly tripled, to $1,800,000, and the company has made a profit in all but two years...
...cantankerous Democratic Representative Clarence Cannon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, had taken umbrage at the way the Senate had been upping his antes on a supplemental appropriations bill. Democratic leaders were desperate by this time. President Kennedy, off on the campaign trail, pleaded with Cannon by telephone; no dice. Democratic Whip Hale Boggs, emerging from a meeting, growled: "I feel like punching somebody in the nose." That bill was stymied, but Cannon was not through. When the final appropriations bill came to the House floor late last