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...first faint harbinger of trouble surfaced: a small runabout wallowing out of gas. We secured a line and towed it in. At Mariel, the harbor gradually took on the look of a water-bound tent city: laundry fluttering from the tethered craft; dejected skippers passing the waiting hours with poker games and the Cuban favorite, dominoes. To provide for the boatmen's diminishing supplies, the port had set up floating stores with exorbitant prices: a take-out chicken dinner cost $30, a bottle of Scotch...
...Daly, 57. A combative Irishman who likes to arm-wrestle visitors, Daly has a reputation for making apparently unsound economic moves pay off. In 1950, at 27, and after a brief career as a semiprofessional boxer, Daly bought the two-year-old ailing World with $50,000 worth of poker winnings. The carrier was no prize. Its debts totaled $250,000, and its assets were only seven planes: two leased war-surplus transports and five unairworthy flying boats that later were sold for scrap...
...tape of a CFTC meeting played at last week's hearing, Commissioner David G. Gartner blithely queried: "Do you think there's any possibility the Hunts are just having fun, just horsing around? Like playing Monopoly like you and I might do, or nickel-and-dime poker...
...resolution, which demanded that Israel both stop its practice of placing new settlements in the Arab lands it has occupied since 1967 and dismantle nearly 100 already in existence, had been a mistake. Carter blamed the error on a "failure to communicate ... clearly." Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, poker-faced, said curtly: "I take full responsibility for what happened...
...place where an athletic contest is held). Even the men's downhill, generally thought to be the most grandly lunatic of the Winter Games, drew less than a swarm. At the men's 30-km cross-country venue, the American spectators would have fit around a poker table or two. (Some 400 people rocked from one cold foot to the other, but most were Norwegian or Finnish officials...