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...America's gambling fever has never been confined to games of chance. After the 1794 yellow fever epidemic, bets were made on the number of the dead. Bettors so pressured steamboat captains to race one another that passengers bribed, pleaded and fought for berths farthest away from the boilers. "Bet-a-Million" Gates, who would bet on anything, used to moisten a lump of sugar and bet $1,000 a fly on how many flies would alight on it. In 1944, General Eisenhower bet ?5 that his troops would reach the German border by Christmas-but lost. Al Capone...
...Steamboat Springs, Colo...
...when Colonel Mobutu's troops finally got their hands on the fleeing Lumumba, he already was beyond remote Port Francqui, a steamboat stop on the Kasai River, 400 miles from Leopoldville. As angry crowds surrounded the Port Francqui police station shouting "Judas" and "Traitor," the soldiers wired their army boss to collect Lumumba immediately, or they would shoot him for treason. Sternly, Mobutu sent back word not to harm the prisoner and dispatched a plane to pick him up. "I cannot judge him. He must defend himself before the courts," explained Mobutu...
...JAZZ STEAMBOAT, with Bill Lee.--a program of Dixieland and other traditional jazz...
Asparagus Upstream. As a key U.S. waterway, the Ohio thrived; the distinctive old steamboat whistles gave way to the diesel-powered towboats' raucous horns, and each year the towboats nursed some 80 million tons of cargo up through the 46 locks. But as a thing of beauty, the Ohio ran downhill; the sprawling, river-fed cities fed back a byproduct of civilization-raw sewage and industrial wastes -until the great stream became an open sewer. Game fish bellied up and died; riverfront Manhattan Beach, near Bellevue, Ky., was covered with a foul slime; Louisville's water system doused...