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...Republican convention last year. This time Kane spent five days with Helms at home and on the job and accompanied him to a Sunday-morning church service. Kane was treated to some BURNETT-CONTACT Southern hospitality when he joined the Senator and some of his cronies for shrimp jambalaya, poker and stories at the Raleigh antebellum mansion of North Carolina Superior Court Judge Pou Bailey. Kane found the evening "fun but unprofitable": he lost...
...Rocco Rago, an afternoon last month began as usual. He and six of the boys, ages between 56 and 77, gathered in the Sun Valley Village trailer park in Pacheco, Calif., for a little game of poker. The stakes never vary: nickels and dimes, with winners going home as much as $7 richer. Suddenly, two Contra Costa County sheriffs deputies burst into the room. "Freeze! You're under arrest!" they yelled at the gamblers. A tad hard of hearing, one of the boys shouted back, "Whaddid ya say? Whaddid ya say?" But Bob Tebo, 56, heard only too well...
...shot involving a small boy who nearly falls off a roof. At the edge of a vast lawn, a fake rock wall and Styrofoam cannon mark the location of the sex scene. The trucks that moved the cameras, props and coils of electrical spaghetti have been converted into Teamster poker parlors. For the hot, thirsty crew that has assembled jv this summer on the bosky Georgian campus of the Millbrook School near Poughkeepsie, N.Y., it is another wrap in the filming of The World According to Garp. But for John Irving, au thor of the 1978 bestseller, and for Robin...
...pols could not settle on any of the leading contenders. One Senator explained: "Warren Harding is the best of the second-raters." Disillusioned by the war and weary of Woodrow Wilson's high-road crusading, the voters overwhelmingly elected Harding. In the White House, he inaugurated twice-weekly poker games in the library and found a secluded closet for trysts with his mistress...
...will bail out Poland? That question has sparked a kind of pressure-packed international poker game involving 15 Western governments, some 460 private banks and the Soviet Union. Among the chief Western creditors are the U.S., where 60 banks have Polish loans on the books, plus West Germany, France, Britain and Austria. None of the governments or private players want to increase their stakes in the game, but none can afford to let Poland's economy collapse and lose all the money that they have already...