Word: dicing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Monaco was a dice with disaster, the Bahamas 500 ocean powerboat race last week turned into what one contestant aptly termed "a demolition derby." The general idea of ocean powerboat racing is to take a boat out into the deep, open her up to 50-60 m.p.h., and pray. The Bahamas 500 was designed as the granddaddy of them all-a 512-mi. circle around the islands from Grand Bahama, and all for $50,000 in prize money. It should have been $1,000,000, considering the carnage...
...singing the message of "Come home; your loved ones miss you." To Viet Cong families will go 200,000 almanac horoscopes, illustrated with pictures of rebuilt villages, the Manila Conference, schools and a diesel train. The Chieu Hoi men will even distribute 100,000 games played with dice to V.C. families. In the game, both sides try to get all their pawns to the defection centers through such obstacles as the Ho Chi Minh trail and monsoon rains. Players are sometimes required to start over because of fatigue, worry and air strikes...
...Move: roll dice to determine the number of squares you may advance...
Ordinary gambling ought to be one of the hardest industries to monopolize, because almost anybody can compete, whether in taking bets or providing cards, dice, or racing information. "Wire services" could not stand the ordinary competition of radio and Western Union; bookmakers could hardly be intimidate if the police were not available to intimidate them. If ordinary brokerage firms were encouraged to take accounts and buy and sell bets by telephone for their customers, it is hard to see how racketeers could get any kind of grip on it. And when any restaurant or bar or country club or fraternity...
...have been doing a brisk business in gifts ranging from toilet kits to packages of fruit, cheese and nuts. Detroit's Hudson's has been advertising a $9.95 "fun kit" for use at the rest-and-recreation areas that contains a case of poker chips, checkers, cards, dice, two empty 12-oz. flasks, a drink mixer, two jiggers, a bottle opener and a score pad. The U.S. Post Office no longer guarantees parcel post delivery by Christmas Day but a present airmailed before Dec. 10 should still reach Viet Nam with Donder and Blitzen...