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...course, no one operates any form of gambling without extracting a commission. But the biggest bite is clearly in lotteries, and the biggest of all is New York's 60%. Counting both the state's cut and operating expenses, the takeout in Maine and Ohio is 55%; in New Hampshire, which started the legal lottery craze in 1964, it is 50%. To get a piece of what is left, a ticket buyer still has to compete with the number of other tickets against him. The odds for winning any prize are not good. In New York, for instance...
...Francisco board of supervisors and the local AFL-CIO labor council, which has called for a general strike if the bargaining breaks down. Scearce's arrival so greatly cheered Moscone that he finally left his city hall office, where he had been subsisting on coffee and takeout Chinese food, sleeping on a cot, and whiling away late-night hours in marathon blackjack games with aides. City hall itself had been without heat during the strike, and there was no hot water in the shower just off Moscone's office. With federal help on the scene, the mayor felt...
Throughout the U.S., the biggest takeout item for restaurant rippers-off is sugar, which has had a price rise of 160% in the past seven months. Larry Buckmaster, executive director of the Chicago and Illinois Restaurant Association, reports that restaurants are having to order twice as much sugar as they did a year ago. A not unmixed blessing is that sugar-bitter restaurant owners are considering a return from the skimpy paper envelopes in which most now serve sugar to bowls and dispensers, which are not so easily slipped into pockets and handbags...
Most restaurateurs suffer silently under a gourmand's assault, but they all frown on one particular variant, the Takeout Artist. At the Stockholm, for example, Manager White caught one soberly dressed couple making off with 4 lbs. of shrimp in a concealed plastic bag after they had finished dining. When White intercepted them, both complained angrily-and the woman dumped the smuggled shrimp on the floor at his feet. A pair of California counterculturists astounded the manager of Shakey's Pizza Parlor with the huge amounts of food they were putting away-until he found an excuse...
Apart from winning the pennant and driving in runs, the only other thing Willie has to concern himself with these days is that familiar symbol of the affluent athlete: an off-the-diamond business. Before the season, his fried chicken takeout restaurant in Pittsburgh's predominantly black Hill District announced that they would give away free chicken every time Willie hit a home run. As one happy fan explains: "The thinner Sugar Bear gets, the fatter...