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...also dispense straight shots. Electra-Bar is designed to be both quicker and more precise than a human barman. But the major inducement for spending $9,960 to buy the machine is that it enables a bar owner to keep an accurate eye on his profits. In a traditional saloon, dishonest or sloppy bartenders can cut heavily into the day's take. Electra-Bar, which measures with laboratory precision and records amounts and sales automatically, helps keep the bar on the level and in the black...
...short end of the purse or by agreeing to take a dive or both. His last major bout was in 1906 in Goldfield, Nevada, against a young white hope named "Battlin'" Nelson. The bout was the first promotion of the notorious Tex Rickard, at that time a local saloon owner. Rickard, who was to become the most successful promoter of the era, put up a purse of $34,000 in gold coins and displayed it in his saloon. Gans, well past his prime, pounded Nelson senseless. Nelson, however, got most of the purse...
...case for this strategy: to keep the enemy off balance and off American backs as the exodus goes on. U.S. muscle in Viet Nam is shrinking by the month, and that is the operative fact. Thus, in a sense, the President is like the fellow backing out of the saloon with both guns blazing...
...unfamiliar story. In the last decade or so, after almost a century of saloon art and horse operas that romanticized Indian fighters and white settlers, Americans have been developing a reasonably acute sense of the injustices and humiliations suffered by the Indians. But the details of how the West was won are not really part of the American consciousness. This is hardly unusual. Despite the need to establish credit with the future, people and nations rarely acknowledge their debts to the past...
Swathed in sober respectability, Actor Richard Burton celebrated his 45th birthday with presents from Queen Elizabeth (the order of Commander of the British Empire) and Wife Elizabeth (a Rolls-Royce saloon). He also ruminated on retirement: "When I really want to slope off and simply be garrulous in my old age, I shall go back to the South Wales village I came fromPontrhydyfen. Elizabeth will still be superbly dressed, but the double chin she has had from childhood will become a third chin, and she'll be asking me to get her a vodka and tomato juice...