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...businessmen ostensibly to rebuild a slum or pave a road, but most of the money would end up in the pockets of Duvalier and his sly henchman. Soon Cambronne was flaunting his new-found wealth: he became an habitué of the most popular brothels and a high-stakes poker player. He also developed a fondness for expensive sharkskin suits, which he usually wore with welder-black sunglasses...
...outside social activity to major Washington gatherings, where steady streams of VIPs pay court to his influence. Otherwise, Spivak prefers to entertain Washington figures in his apartment, sizing them up over lunch or cocktails as potential TV guests. He and his wife are also members of a permanent floating poker group that includes Alice Roosevelt Longworth, who, until she kicked the habit two years ago, was the only person to defy Spivak's edict against smoking in his home...
Died. Leo G. Carroll, 80, British-born actor most familiar to television audiences as the urbane banker in the Topper series and the poker-faced spy master in The Man from U.N.C.L.E.; of cancer; in Hollywood. A shy man who regarded acting as therapy for his diffidence, Carroll enjoyed steady employment in hundreds of plays (Angel Street, The Late George Apley), scores of films (Spellbound, the 1939 Wuthering Heights) and frequent TV appearances, in a career that lasted more than half a century...
...pioneered in the development of time snaring, a method by which many people can use a computer simultaneously. The computer even became his chief form of relaxation. In the small hours of the morning, after what is often a 20-hour workday, Kemeny frequently plays simulated games of chess, poker and football on a computer console in the study of his home. For Dartmouth's football coaches, he created a computer system to help keep track of scouting data...
American farmers and traders to sell their goods overseas at a gain. Like any poker player, the men who wager in the grain-trading business are able to rest a bit more easily if they know they have an ace in the hole...