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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enjoyed a little wager now and then. Doesn't everybody? Then N.F.L. Commissioner Pete Rozelle pointed out that all player contracts specifically forbid betting on league games. Facing a possible suspension, Karras sobbed that it was all a dreadful mistake. "I've never bet more than a pack of cigarettes or a couple of cigars," he said. A lie-detector test? Sure. "If I lied, the way I'm built, the lie-detector machine would explode...
...goat's path to the Goforth domain staggers a starving, exhausted poet in Lederhosen named Christopher Flanders (Paul Roebling), who clearly hopes to stay on for free. Craftily suspicious of freeloaders, Flora keeps the handsome young man at one villa's distance while she rifles his field pack to learn that he is 34 and constructs mobiles. A witchy visitor of Flora's vintage, Vera Ridgeway Condotti (Mildred Dunnock), warns her that Chris has been nicknamed "Angel of Death," having been the questionable companion of several old ladies at the time of their demise. Bent...
...different destination: an allegory of the temptation of Christ. As Boston Drama Critic George E. Ryan of The Pilot perceptively noted during the pre-Broadway tryouts, Chris is both St. Christopher and a Christ figure. Christopher means Christ-bearer. Chris arrives at Flora Goforth's burdened with a pack so weighty that he stumbles. In legend, St. Christopher carries a child across a river, and suddenly, finding the weight almost too great to bear, discovers that he is carrying Jesus, who in turn bears the sins of the world...
Hence the basic blackjack strategy, according to Thorp's computer, is that the fewer cards valued at two to eight that are left in the pack, the greater advantage to the player. On the other hand a shortage of nines, tens and aces gives the dealer an advantage. A scarcity of fives, Thorp's figures indicate, is more advantageous to the player than a shortage of any other card; when all four fives have been played, the player has an edge of 3.29% or, as expressed roughly in odds, 52-48 in the player's favor. Thorp...
This is Thorp's basic strategy; his full-dress system involves a much more complex technique of betting in terms of the number of tens, aces and fives remaining in the deck in relation to the number of cards left in the pack before the next shuffle...