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...individuals feel rich enough to play against the whole table). The clubs, instead of taking a cut of winnings, charge membership fees that range from $1.40 to $115 (depending on how "exclusive" the club), and playing fees collected before a game begins. A single "shoe" at Chemin de Fer or Baccarat, for instance, costs a player from $1.40 on up to the whopping $1,680 charged for one high-stake game at Aspinall...
...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Maurice Evans plays the chief steward in a Deauville gambling casino, who tries to tutor an American businessman (Cliff Robertson) in the technique of winning at chemin de fer...
Privately, Miller rides a Honda, drives a Lincoln Continental, and bites his nails; publicly, he comes on like an abashed pixie. And the lulled listener may miss the humor in a sound like "good ain't fer ever and bad ain't fer good." Playing tricks with words is his lyrical delight: "The moon is high and so am I / The stars are out, and so will I be-pretty soon. / But come the dawn and it will dawn on me you're gone." That sounds like pretty fluid stuff, particularly the way his pronounced but easily...
...again?" asks the narrator with elaborate seriousness. "If so, then the pig died in vain." In Switzerland, mixed nude skiing ap pears to be the latest kick. France has orgiastic "happenings," a homosexual nightclub, and parachutists with a marked proclivity for drunkenness and rape. German and Dutch students pre fer sadism. England's youth, except for a bully gang of Glasgow girls picketing against free love, apparently derives thrills from its Mods and Rockers, heavy petting, and a corps of pimply-faced boys at the Royal Ballet School...
...Wilkinson personally. But he is a much more dynamic speaker, and he makes full use of his rural Oklahoma accent. He likes to talk to the countryfolk about "Momma" and "muh Dad," ("By gosh," said a farmer recently, "he calls his momma 'Momma.' I'd vote fer him fer no other reason than that!"), and he tosses in many an "Aw shucks" kind of reference to Oklahoma's revered Will Rogers. He claims that he is a close personal friend of Lyndon Johnson's and that therefore, if he is elected, he Can Do More...