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Appearing as a subcommittee witness, U.S. Internal Revenue Commissioner Mortimer Caplin estimated that $25 billion in income goes unreported every year-and a healthy slice of the money is earned from gambling. Subcommittee Chairman John McClellan concluded that if all gambling income were reported, the U.S. Treasury would be at least $5 billion richer (enough to balance the budget). Professional Card and Dice Expert John Scarne raised those calls far higher; he guessed that illegal off-track betting alone totals $50 billion a year (in 1960 the legal handle at U.S. tracks was only $3.3 billion), and in addition payoffs...
Despite opposition fears that the Trujillos will never leave power without a blood bath ("It's only a matter of time before they slice us up like hot dogs," said one U.C.N. leader last week), there are many observers who feel that things could be worse in the Dominican Republic. The country has not yet degenerated into civil war or Communism. There are also some small signs that Ramfis Trujillo may be finding his father's mantle a little heavy. In an hour-long interview with a New York Times correspondent last week, Ramfis pleaded for a resumption...
...Young Doctors (United Artists) is a dissecting-room meller that offers any moviegoer with the stomach for it a slice of hospital life. True, the story has been sliced twice before. Author Arthur Hailey first told it in a TV play (No Deadly Medicine), later in a novel (The Final Diagnosis). In the hands of Scriptwriter Joseph Hayes, the slice begins to seem a shade too thin...
There was a slice of pie in the sky for everybody. Workers, who now must moonlight on second jobs to get enough to live on, were promised a six-hour workday ("this will come within ten years"). But at the 21st Party Congress three years ago, this same starry goal was promised for 1961; it was even part of Lenin's grandiose scheme of 1919. The draft plan spoke of a "fourfold increase" in meat production during the next two decades, but discreetly did not quote Moscow's own published statistics showing the slaughter rate to be increasing...
...Place 6 medium-size rocks in an oven and roast until hard on the outside but still rare inside. This takes about as long as chasing a butterfly. Roast Rocks tend to be difficult to slice, so serve each doll a whole rock. Serves...