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...hundred miles west, hotshot Sunday evening gamblers were eagerly rolling dice at Atlantic City's new casinos. Although none of them knew it, at that same moment Texaco oilmen at sea on a drilling rig, which was moored in 432 ft. of water near the edge of the U.S. continental shelf, were playing for much higher stakes. Aboard the Ocean Victory, they nervously awaited the results of a test detonation 14,000 ft. below the ocean floor that could tell the outcome of their $30 million search for oil and natural...
...frequenter of Ronstadt's Hardware store in Tucson might have known, the guest was Linda Ronstadt herself, resting up at home with her parents before her next tour. Showing especially slim, sun-bronzed legs, the local torch singer joined sometime flame Jagger in a rendition of Tumbling Dice, a rocker she recorded on her own latest album, Simple Dreams. Home-crowd reaction: delirious...
...That's it! We'll start the show with a jet. Turn up the sound real loud, like a real landing-we should be careful, though, this new Sensurround business has actually made the dice jump off the table-and drag the plane onstage with beautiful stewardesses in gold bikinis on the wings...
...Says Brownell Combs II, the manager of Spendthrift Farms, regularly one of the tops in the sport: "You breed the best mare you can possibly get to the best stallion you can possibly get and then you hope for the best." And Combs adds: "Breeding Thoroughbreds is like rolling dice...
These figures were "inadvertently" given out although Firestone, charging that the agency loaded the dice against the company by sending half the questionnaires to Firestone owners, had gained a court order suppressing the report. If its tires have drawn a large number of complaints, say company spokesmen, it is simply because Firestone has sold more radials than its competitors. Malcolm Lovell, chairman of the Tire Industry Safety Council, a producers' group, contends that the problem is that too many Americans let their radials become underinflated...