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...controversial Arab refugee question understandably highlights Israel's position but is not very successful in its attempt to present the other side. There is a half-page on Colorado (for its Jewish community) but no separate entry on Israel's neighbor, Saudi Arabia. The encyclopedia gamely notes Gambler Arnold Rothstein and Gangster Benjamin ("Bugsy") Siegel with crisp, forthright entries, but there is no treatment of Jewish humor beyond Hebrew parody-because, say the editors, they could not find a suitable author...
Perhaps because he is a gambler himself, Author Guetti provides Hatcher with a complete metamorphosis from professor to high roller. When last seen he is heading south in a Cadillac for more action.-Lance Morrow
...days later the FBI traced an abandoned rented truck believed to have been used in the plot to Robert Sentner, a New Jersey souvenir manufacturer. Sentner is a high-rolling gambler who just happened to be in hock to Manny Gambino for $40,000. As the FBI focused its investigation on Sentner...
...increased aerial and naval bombardment which has already made much of their country uninhabitable. People around the world continue to hold their breath in anticipation of the Russian and Chinese responses to Nixon's provocation: they know their lives are subject to the whims of an international gambler and his desperate advisors...
...former wife of California Governor Ronald Reagan was waiting for the curtain to go up on the musical Guys and Dolls, starring Daughter Maureen Reagan in the most exciting part she has had in her four-year acting career: Adelaide, the nightclub entertainer and perennial fiancée of Gambler Nathan Detroit. In four pairs of eyelashes and a fluffy blonde wig, Maureen drew guffaws and catcalls in her bumping and grinding A Bushel and a Peck number, but the theater critic of the San Diego Union was more restrained. "Maureen Reagan," he wrote, "compensates for a small voice with...