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Moss was 74 when Alvarez met him in 1981, an old man "secure in his fame and his investments, as remorseless now as he was then, the kind of character that John Wayne was fond of portraying-true grit without forgiveness, to be admired, but from a safe distance." Moss had come to Las Vegas to play in the World Series of Poker, at Binion's Horse shoe Casino. Binion's is the no-limit joint, famous for accepting a $777,000 bet in 1980 from a man who walked in with a suitcase full of cash, rolled...
...Herbert Marcuse wrote in his essay Repressive Tolerance, under the free-speech practices of a liberal regime, "the stupid opinion is treated with the same respect as the intelligent one, the misinformed may talk as long as the informed." History is not the MacNeil-Lehrer Report either. Should one grit one's teeth and recite the First Amendment when, say, American Nazis decide to march in a Chicago suburb (Skokie) inhabited by many Jews who survived the Holocaust? Suppose that a man (William Shockley) wishes to tour American lecture halls suggesting that blacks are inherently inferior to whites...
...take off on its maiden voyage by late March or early April, two months behind schedule. The delays have already cost more than $3 million. And the tab could climb still higher. At week's end technicians found that a lashing rainstorm had left deposits of fine grit, possibly beach sand or salt crystals, inside the payload bay. This could mean an expensive, time-consuming cleanup...
...pressure at the top of this grueling and uncertain game must be some thing more than immense. For all his considerable talent and grit, McEnroe did not last there a year. "People don't realize how difficult it is to be on top," says Borg. "There is a huge difference between...
With wit and grit, Midwestern communities try to cope...