Word: slotted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Starting out as a bodyguard and chauffeur, Valachi survived shifts in power as tricky as ups and downs under the Borgias. He and a partner made $2,500 a week from the slot-machine business. Valachi also ran a numbers racket, a "classy horse room" in White Plains, N.Y., and a loan-shark operation. He bought his own race horses. During World War II, Valachi worked the gasoline black market, earning about $200,000 in three years from finagling with ration stamps. Even at that, he says, "I wasn't so big." After the war, he muscled into jukeboxes...
Masked Innocence. His imagination takes another turn with Burning House. Topped by a Dairy Queen turret, it stands on spindle legs like a kind of stylized cockerel. A .mirrored slot is its front door, a bell tolls the alarm from its innards, and brass flames flick from its windows. A viewer can peer past them to discover a drawing of a grotesque dragon and miniature ladders leading to invisible upper rooms from which there is obviously no escape. What does it mean? "I have no idea," says Westermann. "I cam build a thing, but I can't nail down...
...Calif. But most are enthusiastic. "It's just like when I was a kid," said Robert Locke, a retired steamfitter from Long Beach, Calif. Said Mrs. Sigmund Schuster, wife of a Cleveland clothier: "For me, it only adds to the excitement of gambling." As she spoke, a nearby slot machine struck up a Sousa march, which is the way the casino's slots announce a jackpot...
...weekend concluded Ivy soccer play for the year. Brown faces tough Columbia, and Penn takes on Dartmouth in action that will determine first place. In another game, Cornell struggles to hold onto a piece of third place against Princeton. At best, the Crimson can tie Penn for the second slot...
...that bothered him throughout the dual meet season, led the Harvard effort in 20th position. His time of 15:46 was the best recorded by a Harvard freshman on the three-mile Van Cortlandt course this year. Thirteen seconds behind Jurgens was Britisher Alan Long in the number 30 slot...