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In the interim, the Our Crowd-British crime syndicate turned to casino gambling and associated enterprises as the immediate area for expansion. The Lansky syndicate took the opportunity of Nevada s 1933 passage of specific regulations legalizing casino operations to turn that no-man s-land into a desert resort to house all the West Coast criminal operations that had previously been ran on pleasure boats 12 miles off the coast of Hollywood. Lansky also moved into the Caribbean, preparing the way for the British offshore complex of unregulated banking. [Pg.50]

Seagram has also staked a conglomerate empire in Mexico. Bronfman s contact is former Mexican President Miguel Aleman, who owns and operates Acapulco. Today Aleman is demanding the revival of casino gambling in Mexico in the 1930s nationalist President Lazaro Cardenas threw the casinos, and with them Meyer Lansky, out of the country. [Pg.285]

The Kennedy fortunes are even more directly linked to Lansky through the already documented Resorts Intemational-Intertel interface. Nowhere is this interface more evident than in New Jersey, where a combination of Justice Department "watergating specialists" teamed with a 1 million Resorts International lobbying and payoff campaign to legalize casino gambling. [Pg.389]

Brisman, A. 1999. American Mensa guide to casino gambling Winning ways. New York Sterling Publishing Company. [Pg.71]

Casino Gambling Atlantic City, NJ Las Vegas, NV Monaco Macao... [Pg.9]

Through the investment of the phenomenal profits derived from the Prohibition into gambling casinos, professional sports stadiums and racetracks, organized crime established the... [Pg.50]

In 1964, there was one legal state lottery—in the state of New Hampshire. In 1971, there were three legal state lotteries (in New Hampshire, New York and New Jersey), and one lottery in the province of Quebec. By 2000, a state lottery was legal in 36 states and the District of Columbia. Today casinos operate in 26 states. Some form of gambling is now legal in every state except Utah and Hawaii. [Pg.67]

Indian casinos Illegal gambling Charitable Lottery Horse racing... [Pg.68]

Climax Ian Fleming s Casino Royale —An American espionage agent matches his gambling prowess with a Soviet operative Barry Nelson, Peter Lorre, others—New York Times listing for CBS, October 24,1954 (On Television 1954, 39)... [Pg.330]

The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. Then the soul-erosion produced by high gambling—a compost of greed and fear and nervous tension— becomes unbearable and the senses awake and revolt from it. [Pg.385]

With the advent of fast computers, numerical simulations of liquid structure have become practical. There are two principal simulation methods, h Monte Carlo method and molecular dynamics. The Monte Carlo method is so named because it uses a random number generator, reminiscent of the six-sided random number generators (dice) used in gambling casinos, such as those in Monte Carlo. This method was pioneered by Metropolis. ... [Pg.1187]

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