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...office on any given day without punishment were about as good as the odds last July that he would gain 1,800 yds. He and his roughneck buddies at Galileo High School in San Francisco were caught running a crap game in the boys' room. After the dice players had been delivered to the principal and their offense fully described, O.J. started out the door. "Where are you going?" demanded the principal. "Oh, I've got to get back to class," replied O.J. in a verbal okeydoke. "I was only helping bring these guys down to your office...
...lost souls to the Mission, and the "heat" is on, forcing Nathan and friends to find a safe place for their floating crapgame. They end up shooting craps in the Mission while everyone is out on an all-night crusade. Sky wins their souls with a toss of the dice. He herds the gamblers into the midnight prayer meeting, Sarah keeps her job, the sinners are saved, and Sky and Sarah are married. It's not the most clever plot around, but it does provide the impetus for the parade of magnified characters and a great score, including such standards...
...best it can only arrive at certain statistical probabilities in determining, say, where an electron is at any given moment. the concept that the universe cannot be known by more definite methods that such "guesswork" was so revolutionary that even Einstein could no accept it. " God does not play dice with the universe," he insisted...
...Colegio National de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe and then studied painting and sculpture, not in Milan, but at the National Fine Arts School of Peru. One of his fellow students there, Jose Bracamonte, remembers his pal Carlos as a resourceful blade who lived mainly off gambling (cards, horses, dice), and harbored "like an obsession" the wish to move to the U.S. "We all liked Carlos," recalls Bracamonte. "He was witty, imaginative, cheerful?a big liar and a real friend...
...game itself is deceptively simple. Each player arranges 15 checker-like counters on four of the 24 triangular "points" that line two opposite edges of the rectangular board. The players take turns moving their counters from point to point according to the throw of dice-white going one way, black the other. When a player has collected all of his counters on his "home" points, he can begin to "bear off" (remove his pieces); the first to remove all his pieces wins. He is awarded a single game, a double game ("gammon") or a triple game ("backgammon"), depending upon...