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...slums, the bets are usually on "the numbers." The gambler picks the number that he thinks will come up in some agreed-upon tabulation???the total dollars bet at a race track, for example ?and puts down as little as 250 or as much as $1. In some places $10 bets are allowed. The bet taker himself, called the policy writer, is too small?and too vulnerable?to be a formal member of La Cosa Nostra. He works instead under contract as a "sharecropper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE CONGLOMERATE OF CRIME | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

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