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Correspondent David DeVoss, covering the scene in Las Vegas, did not get off as easily, even with the benefit of expert advice. "There's no such thing as a winning gambler," a casino manager told him. Anxious to challenge that statement, DeVoss consulted a slot machine. Reports DeVoss: "The $15 I lost convinced me that casino managers are more truthful than casino marquees...
...economic posts in his Administration an imposing (6 ft. 4 in., 235 Ibs.), voluble, roughhewn Georgia banker named Thomas Bertram Lance, 45, who not only is a close friend but whose no-nonsense ways and conservative fiscal views match Carter's own. The most likely bet for the slot he will fill: director of the Office of Management and Budget, a job that would seem to coincide with his special talents...
With 10:25 gone in the first period Hughes was upended on a clear breakaway by a Vermont defenseman and thus awarded a penalty shot. The classy center wheeled in alone and fired a dart from the slot that found home in the right hand corner of the Vermont...
...Harvard team, which earned its slot in yesterday's race by sweeping last Monday's IC4As in New York, ran extremely well. Despite the white-hot pace and the unusually long and flat 10,000 meter course, most of the Crimson finishes were strong...
...engineers are building a prototype attack helicopter in competition with Bell for a $1 billion Pentagon contract. KLAS-TV in Las Vegas is bristling with $1 million in new equipment. In October, the new $4 million Hughes Aviation Terminal opened formally in Las Vegas. Among its features: banks of slot machines, a U.S. customs station, and a liquor store that sells Coors by the case...