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...while away the time on long air hops Monty took a fling at an old U.S. pastime. "Your people have been showing me a new game with dice. They call it shooting craps. It's been a lot of fun. We've been shooting craps for matches in the air." Added the hero of El Alamein: "I've lost all my paper matches...
Last May. Still moving on and up Heidt bought the Nevada Biltmore Hotel in Las Vegas for $500,000. Like most Las Vegas hotels, it had hot & cold gambling. Heidt lost more than $6,000 a night until he discovered that he was playing against loaded dice and marked cards (he now displays them in his home labeled: "We learned the hard way"). Then he hired a professional to run the casino, and the losses stopped...
...situation as Germans in the Soviet zone prepared to vote last week in the first "free and democratic" elections since 1933. On the surface all political parties and organizations like trade unions, which are recognized by the Soviet military administration, had equal rights in the campaign. In practice the dice were loaded heavily in favor of the Socialist Unity Party. In private conversations with Germans, Russian officers recently have gone so far as to refer to the Socialist Unity Party as the "Staatspartei" (state party). After all, it is the outgrowth of last Easter's Russian-backed merger...
Some British investigators think the evidence in favor of dice control is "even more clear-cut" than for ESP. Last week the eminently respectable American Society for Psychical Research (founded by William James) got into the game...
Chairman of the society's research committee is famed Psychologist Gardner Murphy, of Columbia University. With his backing, Miss Laura Abbott Dale, editor of the society's Journal, rounded up 54 college students, put them to work shooting dice. To rule out physical skill, she had them roll the dice four at a time, down a specially built washboard chute with 55 baffles, made each subject try for every number (from one to six) in turn. Results...