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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least ten other known counters, out of the game. The casino had cause for alarm: Uston was winning at the rate of $700 an hour and had accumulated $43,000 in chips in about 60 hours of playing when he was informed of the ban. Undaunted, Uston plans to file a complaint with the New Jersey Casino Control Commission. He also may continue to place a few chips on the sly: "Maybe I'll try my Dr. Wasserman disguise," he said, holding up a gray wig. "That's the one where I wear thick glasses and a Brooks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Catch-21 | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

Just as the community fought school desegregation, the rank and file of the police force resented, but were powerless to stop, the integration of blacks into their department...

Author: By Lisa A. Newman, | Title: A Maryland County Goes on Trial | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

Elections for new assembly members will be held today and tomorrow in the Freshman Union and all House dining halls except Kirkland House. The Kirkland House Committeee has delayed elections one week in order to allow more candidates to file self-nomination statements, Patrick Fischer '79, Kirkland House committee chairman, said yesterday...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Assembly Votes to Seek Recognition From Faculty | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...cooling-off period when a crippling strike looms. The government also lacks the sophisticated mediation and arbitration machinery that has long been a part of U.S. labor laws. Beyond that, top-ranking union leaders now appear to have relatively little control over an ever more aggressive rank and file. Many public workers declined to return to work even after the official one-day demonstration of strength had ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Collapse of a Social Contract' | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

...standard form for checking out applicant credentials. Harvard College, for instance, receives 2,000 queries a year. The Harvard Business School gets about 8,000. Checking up on about 12,000 inquiries a year, U.C.L.A. finds two or three frauds a week. For its part, Yale has accumulated a file of 7,000 or so bogus Old Blues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Question of Degree | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

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