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...challenge. More popular with physicists was a view derived from quantum mechanics, which holds that the universe is made up of small particles (quanta) that behave, individually, as if they were governed by mere chance. Einstein does not accept this. "I cannot believe," he remarked, "that God plays dice with the cosmos...
...explain clearly to laymen just what he has done. Apparently he has worked out a solution for Einstein's equations, and has concluded that electromagnetism gives rise to both matter and to gravity, a property of matter. This would make the laws of electro-magnetism supreme, superseding the "dice" of quantum mechanics...
...table man chanted: "Here he goes for line bets . . . Pay the line . . . Shooting ten, ten's the point . . . No roll, no roll." One of the bettors crowding around the Capri Club dice table was a tall, dark-haired man named Donald Loughnane, who was in the midst of a three-month tour of the illegal gambling joints and after-hours drinking places in and around Omaha, Neb. But Loughnane was no playboy. He was a reporter-announcer for Omaha's station KOWH, and his method of reporting seemed straight out of Dick Tracy: hidden in his wristwatch...
...recorded show called Omaha After Dark, Loughnane and Station Manager Todd Storz aired some of the gleanings of the remarkable wristwatch, brought to listeners the actual click of illegal dice, the clink of ice in illegal highballs, and the voices of illegal nightclub owners and employees. One waitress was heard to reassure Loughnane that her place had not been raided in more than a year; an owner answered a question about gambling by saying: "Sure, downstairs. Just go on down. You know everybody down there...
...Literary Life. In Lorain, Ohio, arrested for gambling, Bookseller Michael Rusine paid a $50 fine, admitted that he let patrons roll dice, double or nothing, for their purchases...