Word: lotto
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Legal gambling has spread into some of the most straitlaced parts of the nation. Take Iowa: six years ago, even church bingo games were illegal there. Now Iowa residents have some of the widest choices available in legal gambling. They can buy tickets in either the state lottery or Lotto America, an organization that some experts think may be the nucleus of a national lottery; it currently operates in eight states and the District of Columbia and expects to sign up two more states this summer. Iowans can also bet at one horse track and three dog tracks...
...often say when they enter the racket, just before they start advertising for more gamblers. Speaking of myths, legends and lies, the Government's famous plan to supplant Harry the Horse in the bookie business should never have been taken seriously. Harry has always given the customers something that Lotto and OTB never will. Credit...
...Cincinnati, where Procter goes on associating with Gamble, the Reds are still waiting to learn whether Rose bet on Thoroughbreds or himself. All around, the Lotto jingles play accompaniment to the mystery. At the next World Series, whether Rose is there or not, one thing is sure. The mayors of the competing towns will wager a bushel of rutabagas against a barrel of pistachios on the great American pastime...
Since Florida joined 27 other states and plunged into the lottery business last January, gamblers have plunked down more than $1 billion for lotto or scratch-off tickets, and the state has tucked away $350 million for its schools. Not everyone enjoys the boom, however. Merchants find the growing lines of ticket buyers a headache. Their annoyance was dramatized last week, following Florida's record $55.1 million payoff, when President James Kufeldt of Winn-Dixie Stores gave the state a month's notice that his 471 supermarkets are pulling out of the games. Swarms of ticket buyers were sometimes "impairing...
Zobel is best known for his series of paintings "Diaolgos," "conversations" with artists such as Rembrant or Lorenzo Lotto. His work is often associated with the informalist movement, which developed after the fall of the Spanish Republic and is especially color-sensitive...