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Harrah's approach to managing the chaotic business of gambling is to leave nothing to chance. High above its crowded Reno and Lake Tahoe casinos, where $2 billion changes hands each year, security guards crawl along steel catwalks and watch for cheaters through one-way ceiling mirrors. Near by, cashiers match bingo winners against a computerized list of more than 4,000 cards. Players who switch cards, load dice or pinch bets pose a constant threat to profitability. So does the danger of thievery by employees: to discourage theft, cash from the company's 3,900 gaming tables...
...with the inauguration of regular transatlantic passenger service in 1976. Last week the Soviet Union belatedly entered the supersonic sweepstakes by initiating regular Tu-144 flights on a little-traveled run between Moscow and Alma-Ata, an industrial city of 860,000 near the Chinese border. Price of a one-way ticket on the once-a-week flight: $113. TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Marsh Clark was the first Western passenger to step aboard the supersonic transport on its inaugural flight and filed this report...
...SKYTRAIN One-way tickets sold first come, first served, beginning at 4 a.m. on day of departure only. Meals on plane extra...
...flip side, Spence will require a House to accept transfers only when the current House population falls below the 87 per cent floor. Thus Mather, with its ten per cent attrition rate, need not accept any one-way transfers this fall. A master might decide to accept transfers beyond the required minimum, possibly to alter the class balance within the House, to help out an overcrowded House or for other reasons...
...South Africa permitted two blacks to become Nieman Fellows by granting them one-way exit permits--they were not allowed to return to their country. After one of them committed suicide in New York because he was unable to return home, the fellowship sponsor, the South Africa Leader Exchange Program Inc., abandoned the program because they felt it was too difficult a choice to force on black journalists...