Word: rolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...table man chanted: "Here he goes for line bets . . . Pay the line . . . Shooting ten, ten's the point . . . No roll, no roll." One of the bettors crowding around the Capri Club dice table was a tall, dark-haired man named Donald Loughnane, who was in the midst of a three-month tour of the illegal gambling joints and after-hours drinking places in and around Omaha, Neb. But Loughnane was no playboy. He was a reporter-announcer for Omaha's station KOWH, and his method of reporting seemed straight out of Dick Tracy: hidden in his wristwatch...
...free of Communist blurbs. The wonder is that the movie, with grace and sureness, finds images to portray the symbols that swarm beneath the surface of the story. Sadko is a spectacle-in adequate color-that need not pale beside Cecil B. DeMille. Dancers flash, warriors buffet, giant storms roll by with a verve that Hollywood can seldom induce. Above all, it is a spectacle that gives glimpses of the soul as well...
...TIME confine its activities to worthy individuals in its People column, rather than dredge up such a roll call of globetrotters . . . and general no-goods...
...listening, it appeared that one of the key points of his tour might be Argentina, which was included in the itinerary only at the last minute and after notable White House reluctance. In Buenos Aires that old yanqui'-baiter Juan Peron showed every sign of getting ready to roll out the red carpet for the U.S. President's brother. Peron had recalled personable Ambassador Hipolito Jesus Paz from Washington, presumably to help organize the welcome. Last week his regime suddenly let up on its campaign to drive U.S. news agencies out of the country. The strong man also...
...industry. It is also the biggest company town in the world, dominated by a single colossus world-famed for its name: Fiat (Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino). Almost two-thirds of Turin's 735,000 people owe their livelihood to Fiat; off the assembly lines of its 15 plants roll 90% of Italy's cars. But automaking is only the core of Fiat's industrial empire. A visitor to Turin rides to a Fiat-owned hotel in a Fiat taxi, reads a Fiat newspaper, drinks Fiat's Cinzano vermouth, shops at a Fiat drugstore, leaves for Milan...