Word: dicing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...organization provided they get a membership card, pay dues that are taxdeductible, and get away from home at least one night a week. But alcoholics, gamblers and dope addicts who join such organizations as A.A., G.A., and Synanon have a special purpose. To get off the sauce, the dice or the pot, they need will power. And obviously will power languishes in loneliness but thrives in company...
...year. When Harding and Tomson decided to form the company, both were livestock breeders and Harding also acted as U.S. agent for Lloyd's of London's livestock insurance business. "This is a crap-shooting business," says Harding. "We're betting against the roll of the dice." So far, he and Tomson have called the dice pretty well. Since 1954, American Livestock's annual premium volume has nearly tripled, to $1,800,000, and the company has made a profit in all but two years...
...cantankerous Democratic Representative Clarence Cannon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, had taken umbrage at the way the Senate had been upping his antes on a supplemental appropriations bill. Democratic leaders were desperate by this time. President Kennedy, off on the campaign trail, pleaded with Cannon by telephone; no dice. Democratic Whip Hale Boggs, emerging from a meeting, growled: "I feel like punching somebody in the nose." That bill was stymied, but Cannon was not through. When the final appropriations bill came to the House floor late last
...stakes out a homestead on state land in Florida. He is weak in the head but strong in the arm. When the state highway department tries to have him evicted, he stubbornly stands his ground. When some gamblers try to scare him out, he knocks their heads together like dice. And when the Southern belle (who happens to be a social worker) goes after his family as well as his coupons, Elvis innocently but effectively twists the long arm of the law. Happily, he doesn't sing very often in this picture, but when he sings he sometimes scratches...
...Today Manhattan is in the midst of the biggest apartment-building boom in its history. But high prices since the war have tempted most builders into cutting corners, cramping spaces, and scanting on wall thicknesses. Says Architect Bernard Guenther: "Nowadays, when the fellow upstairs rolls a pair of dice, you can tell when they come up seven." Ceilings are now a standard and skimpy eight feet, and it is a rare apartment that has a working fireplace. Complains Decorator Elizabeth Draper: "The rooms are so neutral: they have no moldings or cornices, no 'eyebrows,' no character." Echoes Designer...