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...came with some degenerates who went straight to the tables. They haven't even been up to our rooms." ("Degenerate" is an acknowledged category of gambler in Las Vegas, one step ahead of "compulsive" on the road to ruin.) In perfect synchronization, the two women lean over with brushes in both hands, and each beats her hair into a froth. Upright again, both declare, "Ugh! Straw!" The little bimbo says, "I'd never put color on my hair. People would think I was phony...
Rocco Peris, the 25-year-old brother of a Pittsburgh gambler who helped organize the scheme, said he personally inside the arrangements with Cobb about a week before the Dec. 16 game against Harvard, which the heavily favored BC team won by only three points...
...this direct and dramatic way was concluded the biggest corporate takeover in U.S. history. Its elements of cold calculation, high risk and individual daring made the move seem entirely characteristic of the oil industry, which has always rewarded the nervy gambler. Socal now stands to become the third-largest American oil company; its combined revenues of $57.3 billion would place it behind only Exxon (1983 revenues: $94.6 billion) and Mobil (1983 revenues: $58.5 billion), A completed deal would also make Socal the largest U.S. gasoline retailer, with 10.2% of the market and stations in every state but Wisconsin and North...
...crop of exceptionally rich people is springing up in America, almost from nowhere. Rarely have so many made so much so quickly. They have a gambler's nerve, a fortuneteller's foresight and a prospector's nose for gold. They have prospered first by starting or investing in small, unknown companies, and then capitalizing on the 17-month-old bull market that has sent the Dow Jones industrial average to one new high after another...
Others who profited from Thayer's stock tips, the complaint goes on, included Gayle Schroder, 46, chairman of First American Bank and Trust of Baytown, Texas; Malcolm Davis, 48, a convicted gambler and president of a Dallas insurance agency...