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...dice are set to be cast in Atlantic City

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Betting on the Boardwalk | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

...license to fight. I even tried to set up a fight in a bullring across the border from San Diego, and they wouldn't let him leave the country. Overnight he became a 'nigger' again. He threw his life away on one toss of the dice for something he believed in. Not many folks do that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Greatest Is Gone | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

...like to see freshman basketball coach and former Notre Dame star Ray "Dice" Martin suit up for one game to see if he can still...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: 'For I'm a Jolly Good Fellow'... | 2/15/1978 | See Source »

...contrives detracts something from the legend that Brontë invented. Heathcliff was not meant to dally, however rudely, with Lon don ladies. Heathcliff also suggests that its hero is more pussycat than tiger. For all his violent talk ("I kicked him in the mouth, rattling his teeth nicely, like dice in a cup"), Heathcliff kills no one. His one violent act, cutting off the hand of an enemy who had tried to kill him, goads him into a shamefaced apology to Catherine. The real Heathcliff would never explain or apologize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: More News of the Dark Foundling | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...wants to use games for teaching. His customers, almost all of whom are male, want war, but he has bigger ideas. A recent SPI game is called A Mighty Fortress, and it is nothing less than a re-forming of the Reformation. Play the Pope cleverly, and roll your dice right, and Martin Luther becomes a minor malcontent known only to historians. Dunnigan's buyers are lean and hungry; their rooms are sandbagged with history books. "Games are one step beyond print!" he says, very excited by this idea. "You travel in a paper time machine that lands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Games People Play: 1977 | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

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