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When she showed up for work as a Chicago prosecutor in 1972, Patricia Bobb fought off a stint in juvenile court, the usual first slot for a woman. Bobb, fresh out of Notre Dame Law School, won assignment to criminal court. She kept on winning: a streak of 22 victories in cases that went to the jury. In 1977 Bobb drew "what we call a heater - a hot first-degree murder that produced a two-month trial and lots of publicity." Lapsing into the trial lawyer's habit of assessing courtroom opportunity, she recalls, "It had every thing, blood...
...least three major slot-machine gangs are now thought to be operating in France. According to police, turf wars between rival gangsters led to four Paris murders during 1982. Says one inspector: "A slot machine in a bar is less cumbersome and less talkative than a prostitute on the street, and it also brings in more money...
Ironically, the French government itself triggered the slot-machine boom and is among its biggest beneficiaries. French slots had long been outlawed and confined to the back rooms of seedy bars until December 1981, when the Mitterrand Administration tacitly legalized them by placing a $714 annual tax on each machine. The number of slots quickly exploded from 10,000 to 30,000 by the end of last year. An additional 25,000 were installed in the first three months of 1983 alone. Paris' estimated tax take from the machines is now running at an annual rate of some...
...government, however, is willing to give up those revenues to halt what it has come to call "immoral games ol chance." Under the proposed law, anyone caught owning or using a slot machine could be fined up to $4,100 and sentenced to six months in jail. Barring a major wave of protests, France's machines a sous seem headed for the back room once again...
First seed Howard Sands, who had missed a week of practice before downing Princeton's Ted Farnsworth (ranked third in the nation) on Thursday, did not play. Warren Grossman, nearing the end of a strong season, moved up into Sands's slot for the third time this year. The coach's decision was made to give Grossman a chance to battle Cornell's Dave Merritt, a highly lauded sophomore before the NCAA tournament selections are in announced today. By all indications, Grossman, who took a 7.5, 6-4 win, and Sands have both earned singles spots for Harvard...