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...bulk, may knock down as much as $26,000 a week. Their distributors can earn $3,800, and the lowly pusher, often an addict, gets about $ 125 and all the smack he can shoot-about $900 worth a week at current prices. Before he was jailed, one young black hustler, beginning from scratch five years ago, built up a dope-peddling business in Boston that employed 20 people and grossed $2.5 million a year...
...nerves is not the only thing backgammon buffs have to watch out for. There is also a new breed of hustler lurking: the backgammon shark. Charming and sociable, sharp-minded and able to drink heavily without impairing their skills, they haunt the fashionable resorts and hope to get into a game with a wealthy pigeon like the notorious European buff who has reputedly dropped $500,000 or so in the past three years at the backgammon board. "You can make $1,000 to $1,500 a week by playing these people," says one hustler who tries to remain anonymous...
Most of the pigeons, of course, are wealthy enough to take their losses in stride. Indeed, says another hustler, one of the rules of the trade is "never take money from people who cannot afford it. That can give the game a bad name...
...court. "All he does is run. run. run." panted the Baltimore Bullets' Elvin Hayes after Cowens victimized him in a recent game by raking in 29 rebounds. "Many centers pick their spots to perform," says Bullet Coach Gene Shue. "Cowens hustles constantly He's the best big hustler in the league...
...going insane in that room," says "Roach" Brown. A onetime street hustler convicted of murder, he was talking about his solitary confinement after a 1968 riot at the Lorton Reformatory near Washington, D.C. Brown lost track of time-first the date, then the day of the week, eventually even night and day. "I used to talk to myself and laugh and cry," he remembers. "I wanted someone to see me, to say they cared." Finally, one day, the sliding panel in his cell door clicked open, a hand reached in with two packs of cigarettes plus a ration of candy...