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Dishearteningly, one telephone number provides "all scores read slowly and in the rotation used by Nevada sports books." Another, perhaps more alarming ad calls: "Football Players $$Take the Sure Shot $$ Call The Money Phone." In this increasingly distorted collage of values and priorities, an ad which appears in almost every football magazine earnestly asks. "Do you know the value of a Half Point?" Well, "you should...
...football magazines as pillars of pure fun and games blurs completely when their advertising is examined. Only a few magazines carry entire sections on gambling, although The Professor's edition even carries a page of where-to-bet recommendations. (Harrah's Sports Book on "Highway 50 at Stateline, Nevada" receives high marks.) But nearly all the journals have reams of ads for gambling advice...
...page ad from Reno Sports Service proclaims the Nevada group "America's "Lock Champs." They claim to have been 100 percent the past four seasons--"documented." Quite simply, "Reno Sports Service has NEVER LOST. 'LOCK' game" in that time. "For those readers unfamiliar with the term, a 'LOCK' is a game which for 'certain inside reasons' is as close as humanly possible to a sure thing. These game are 'LEAD PIPE CINCHES.' Our remarkable ability to select these 'LOCK' games him drive the sports book operators 'right up the wall and they have NO WAY OF STOPPING YOU FROM MAKING...
...opening-day ceremonies ended when six leaders of the Republican-controlled Senate visited the White House for breakfast with Ronald Reagan. Finance Committee Chairman Robert Dole of Kansas summarized their message: "We told the President that we could not live with those big deficits." Paul Laxalt of Nevada, Reagan's closest friend on Capitol Hill, described the red-ink figure to reporters as "a little terrifying...
Police showed up at a brick duplex at 5306 Nevada Avenue, in the affluent Chevy Chase suburb of Washington. Inside were 151 Ibs. of marijuana, worth about $500,000, stashed in 16 boxes. No one was home, but someone planning a drug sale had been stripping the marijuana leaves and burning the relatively valueless stalks in the fireplace. Later, three men and two women, all in their 20s, who had been living in the rented duplex for about a month, surrendered. Their cache, police said, was as first-rate as the $150,000 and $200,000 homes in the neighborhood...