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...easy work. The search for oil meant days of chasing rumors over dusty back roads in Texas and Oklahoma, and nights bent over maps studying geological strata. In his spare time, Pickens indulged his passion for Gusher, a board game in which players roll dice to look for oil. Says Amarillo Lawyer Wales Madden Jr., an old friend: "It was uncanny. He always won at that darn game...
...Mozart, he's the guy who wrote Elvira Madigan, and his first name is Mostly, isn't it? The film's $18 million budget may be less than is spent on many a teenpic flop, but it still makes Amadeus a ricochet roll of the dice; the film will have to bring in more than $40 million at the box office just to break even...
...agenda includes digging up the South Yard, the site of the Old College and Indian College of the 1600s. Boston University Professor F.J.E. Gorman hopes his projected 20 students will be able to find evidence of 17th-century student ideologies--"evidence of student revolts," such as broken glass and dice and cards, from a time when gambling was forbidden...
...take a chance on a woman's galvanizing effect. Says one political consultant: "If he's six or eight points down in the polls, he'll go with the conventional choice. But if he's 15 to 20 points down, he may say it's time to roll the dice. That's where Ferraro comes in at convention time...
Whatever the method, players see the games as a dice roll on a dream. Says Louis DeSantis, who has sold New York lottery tickets at his Lower Manhattan newsstand since 1967: "People know they're not going to get rich on what they're making, so they invest a dollar and wish." But despite well-publicized accounts of overnight wealth (see box), a person is about 31½ times as likely to be killed by lightning as to win New York State's Lotto jackpot. "Sure, somebody wins," says Myron Powell, a retired Congregational minister who fought...