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...reservations are located. The most popular reservation game is high-stakes bingo. Near Franklin, La., 1,200 people every Saturday night jam into a $2 million bingo hall built last September on the Chitimacha Indian Reservation; that is four times the number of Indians living on the reservation. Each player pays a $45 admission fee and gets twelve bingo cards. The payoff on each winning card is $1,000; total prizes every night are at least $40,000. That tops the church bingo games that prompted an ancient wheeze: "Did you hear about the Cadillac dealer? He won a Catholic...
...credit modern technology with contributing to the gambling surge. Computers have made possible the instantaneous distribution of odds on any kind of race or ball game anywhere in the country; bettors can watch the performance of the horses or teams they follow on cable television. Lotteries sell tickets through player-activated computer terminals; churches and charities offer computerized bingo readers. "The new technology makes gambling much more accessible, and it speeds everything up," says Richard Rosenthal, a Beverly Hills psychoanalyst who specializes in treating compulsive gamblers. "It makes gambling much more addictive...
...seasons, no one has been depressed to know that there was a baseball player who lived his life according to the numbers, who kept statistics in so many categories that he seemed to be a portrait of a ballplayer painted by the numbers. On the contrary, the calculations of Pete Rose have been central to his charm. Who else remembers ordering room service in 1963, and that...
Rose's father was a banker, a numbers man who always seemed to be hunched over a column of figures. He was also a semipro football player who competed into middle age for the old Cincinnati Bengals. "When I was young," the son recalls, "people would stop me on the street to tell me I could never be what my father...
...that point, I asked Glenn if he was bringing up a record player so I could listen to my Metallica albums. Glenn paused, then said...