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...Many of them say they are going to Vegas mainly to get warm. This is no doubt the reason why Mickey Koehler lugs $40 worth of quarters and $20 in dimes onto the plane--for the exercise. Still, the notion that just one of those dimes in the right slot machine could mean a bright red vintage MG isn't entirely incidental...
Later that afternoon, while he is waiting for his room at the Flamingo Hilton, Donald Persson deposits three quarters into a slot machine, one of the largest bets of his life, and pulls the lever. The wheels fall into place, and the coins start firing rat-a-tat into the metal change bucket. Persson takes a seat, drops three more quarters and contemplates just what he has been missing for the past 57 years. By the time his wife Myrna disconnects him from the machine and persuades him to visit a cashier, he is up $153. He hardly needs...
Representative Goldman proposes that the council push for a new housing selection process in which freshmen receive their lottery numbers along with a time slot. During that time they can come to a room with a big board listing all the housing openings and sign up for the house they want...
...beginning of the year, the movie moguls in each house hold meetings to decide the coming year's schedule. Then, Hollywood Harvard-style meets in full, and the film societies lottery to determine which house gets which weekend slot in the Science Center...
...only does this mean that the department is left holding the bag on three Spring courses; that we 'used' up a slot for two years in this effort; that the energy of the faculty, staff, chair, deans, and officers of the University were wasted; that graduate students were misled in making their plans; that our efforts to protect her reputation were made a mockery; and so on--it is also an explicit violation of promises made, as she herself acknowledged to me," the letter continues...