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...total previous big-league experience consisted of one day in the uniform of the Washington Senators, during which he went 0 for 3 at the plate. But he had served a 20-year managerial apprenticeship in the minors. The first thing he did was break up the locker-room poker game. Each night on the road, to make sure his Twins got their beauty sleep, he personally tucked them in. When eight players missed his 1:30 a.m. bed check after a night game in New York, he docked them each $100. Relief Pitcher Ron Kline got personal attention...
...contradictions. While banning most forms of gambling 29 states permit horse racing-but not off-track betting. Some states forbid betting on flat racing, which is presumably wicked, but allow betting on harness races-which are presumably a wholesome, rustic diversion. The California legislature puts on its best poker face and allows betting in draw-poker parlors because it is a "game of skill." In Virginia, the statutes spell out that b-i-n-g-o is forbidden. So the churches and fire stations spell it beano, or bungo, or lotto, and go right on playing...
Emil ("Bus") Mosbacher Jr., 45, is not the sort of fellow anybody would invite into a friendly poker game. Behind that genial grin are the instincts of a tiger shark. In last week's America's Cup observation trials off Newport, R.I., Bus once more demonstrated why he is rated the slickest blue-water sailor in the world. At the helm of Intrepid, he ran off a string of five straight victories, including a 3-min. 46-sec. trouncing of Pat Dougan's refurbished Columbia - the boat that was expected to give Intrepid its stiffest battle...
Debris & Malaise. In particular, Mayor Locher has done little to implement the ambitious urban renewal project promised for Hough six years ago, and the section remains a garbage-strewn jungle. Exacerbating racial unrest over slum conditions, Locher (rhymes with poker), a Rumanian-born attorney and friend of former Mayor, now Senator, Frank Lausche, recently ordered a harsh crackdown on Negro demonstrators. "Fill every jail, if necessary," he said. The panic implied in that pronouncement was summed up last week by Chicago Sun-Times Reporter Morton Kondracke, who concluded from a five-week nationwide tour of the urban ghettos: "In Cleveland...
...privacy of his chambers. His compassion is evident in even the most minor cases-many of which inevitably involve race. In one, a white man had allegedly hired four Negroes to help him steal peanuts from a federal warehouse. The jury acquitted the white man, convicted the Negroes. Poker-faced, Johnson dropped a balancing thumb onto the scales of Alabama justice as he handed down the Negroes' sentence: 30 minutes in the custody of the U.S. marshal...