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...radio cue prompter," consisting of a radio transmitter and receiver (each the size of two cigarette packs), designed especially for efficient partnership card play. With this transmitter strapped to his leg, a gambler can send undetected a coded series of electric impulses, guide his partner on the betting...
...almost undetectable. Tinted red, the lenses can catch card markings (made with a special ink that Karnov sells for $10 a quart) that the naked eye would miss. Senator Karl Mundt tried on a pair of similarly treated, standard-size glasses, solemnly warned his colleagues: "Beware the red-eyed gambler...
...special magnet ($150) that can be worn inside trousers, also for use in partnership operations. While one gambler tosses dice in which metal dust has been worked into the paint spots, his partner stands at the other end of the table, controlling the spots by imperceptible body movements...
...with baron." Ippolita marries one-Baron Konrad von Grueber-and it becomes the ruefully comic epic of Ippolita's skinflint life to retrieve her one uncharacteristic act of giving herself to him. The baron is a madcap giant of a hussar, a Homeric drinker and eater, an impenitent gambler, an indefatigable skirt chaser. Ippolita, to whom purse strings are the only heart strings, chokes as her beans-and-mush menus give way to roast pigs, shank sausage and plump capons. She likes to dress like a ragpicker; the baron makes her buy the latest imported fineries. Ippolita doles...
Fertile Ground. Founded in 1957 by Los Angeles Plungers Jim and Sam, who discovered that they could stop their gambling by talking about their past experiences, G.A. has only one requirement for membership: a desire to stop gambling. The society defines the compulsive gambler as one who would affirmatively answer 7 of 20 basic questions. Examples: "Does gambling make you careless of the welfare of your family?" "Do you ever gamble to get money to pay debts?" "After a win, do you have a strong urge to return and win more?" "Does gambling cause you to have difficulty sleeping...