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...music of his Walkman. He piles up a fortress of chips, then watches it disintegrate. The last of it backs two nines. He pulls a third nine, but his opponent gets a third queen. Television crews have filmed almost every hand he has played. Now he's gone. Dewey Tomko, who came in second here a few years ago, used to be a kindergarten teacher for migrant workers' children in Florida. He would stay up all night playing poker, he admits shyly, and when his class took its nap, he would take one too, on his very own mat, sometimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Las Vegas, Nevada The Big Poker Freeze-Out | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

...Pontiff's circumspect language, said Czechoslovak Josef Cardinal Tomko, a member of the Pope's inner circle in Rome, was dictated by the "hope of receiving from the other side a response equally conciliatory, human and constructive." Lately there have been small but significant signs of change. Last year the Czechoslovak weekly newspaper Tribuna called John Paul "one of the most reactionary Popes of this century." But last May, another state- controlled paper, Katolicke Noviny, lauded John Paul as the "untiring hero of international detente." The seeming thaw in East bloc-Vatican relations was not in evidence last year when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Building a Spiritual Bridge: John Paul's Encyclical Appeals | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

...made many unsecured loans, figuring that "the borrower's character means more than anything else." The loans cited in the indictment include one for $45,000 to his wife LaBelle and another for the same amount to his son David, then 19. Under cross-examination by Prosecutor Edwin Tomko, Lance insisted that since both LaBelle and David were good credit risks, there was nothing improper about the loans, nor, he said, was there anything wrong with any of the other unsecured loans that he made to relatives, friends and associates. Lance's defense was buttressed by testimony from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Bert Testifies | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

...trial was devoted to selecting a panel of 56 jurors and alternates, a painstakingly slow process. By week's end 53 had been chosen. All had been required to answer 70 written inquiries about their education, employment, health-even their hobbies and reading habits. In court, Edwin J. Tomko, a member of the Justice Department's fraud section, asked each potential juror in a high-pitched voice whether he or she had seen or heard any accounts of the case, formed an opinion or read LaBelle's book This Too Shall Pass. In a silky Southern voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: In the Dock | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

Jury selection was so prolonged that Tomko joked, "At this rate, my newborn daughter will be in first grade by the time we begin." And in graduate school before they end. Together the two sides may call between 150 and 200 witnesses before the case goes to the jury and the fate of Jimmy Carter's old friend is decided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: In the Dock | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

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