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Correspondent David DeVoss, covering the scene in Las Vegas, did not get off as easily, even with the benefit of expert advice. "There's no such thing as a winning gambler," a casino manager told him. Anxious to challenge that statement, DeVoss consulted a slot machine. Reports DeVoss: "The $15 I lost convinced me that casino managers are more truthful than casino marquees...
...greatest potential area of competition is, of course, sports betting, which accounts for 90% of the action currently handled by illegal bookies ?despite the old gambler's adage, "Never bet on anything that talks." It has been called the "big button." Delaware recently became the first state to start a football lottery. Called Touchdown, it takes into account the point spread between opposing teams, just as the bookies do. In brief, that means that somebody betting on, say, the Seattle Seahawks, who are rated nine-point underdogs, wins if Seattle wins, or even if Seattle loses by eight points...
...does more legalization mean more compulsive gamblers who become problems? "The problem gambler has all the opportunity he needs right now," says Ritchie. "I'm not promoting legalized gambling. But the argument that legalized gambling will create problem gamblers is false." Nonetheless, a number of psychologists and sociologists emphasize the need for a vigorous educational program to inform the public ?particularly adolescents?about the risks that are as much a part of gambling as its potential profits and pleasures. Dr. Sirgay Sanger, for example, director of the Parent-Child Interaction Program at St. Luke's Hospital in Manhattan believes...
...nation to date has virtually ignored the problem of the compulsive gambler. The only federal funds allotted to treatment of the hopelessly addicted bettor are some $330,000 a year spent by the Veterans Administration. Dr. Robert Custer, who as chief of the VA's mental-services division has made a close study of the subject, points out that there is now no funding whatever for research into gambling addiction, as there is for alcoholism. He suggests that psychological research and treatment of the obsessive gambler could be financed by a small portion?say, .5%?of the revenue that...
Just a Gigolo. This old woman has come to Paris for a last visit with her favorite son (Joseph Maher). As a boy, he used to idle away hours in the trees. As a man, he has idled away his life as a compulsive gambler and is now a gigolo in a nightclub. The woman he lives with is the club hustler (Suzanne Lederer). The conversational pas de trois that these three engage in is replete with bitterness and non-sequitur absurdist humor. The performers are also forced to carry an elephantine load of symbolism...