European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse 1994 a ill is a Dave Didio Ladbroke offices like this one in Mildenhall England earned about $ 120 million from individual bettors last year. When brits Are feeling Lucky they punt Steve Coll the Washington Post Enni Reid of suburban London argued with father in Law recently about whether advances in science would permit men to give birth. She thought this was inevitable but he laughed at. In fact he laughed Long and hard. So Reid did what any number of respectable Middle class britons might do. She telephoned Bookie. I thought i wonder if the bookmakers would think the same Way Andley might give me some very Good Odds " she said. .,.-. Ffne3k she was right Odds maker Graham a. A Sharpe of the William Hill organization which takes in about $2.2 billion in Revenue annually from punters As bettors Are known in Britain initially considered laying the Odds of male mothering at 1 million to 1. But after talking with scientists and considering that there Are various definitions of a Man and various definitions of giving birth Sharpe said he finally agreed to accept a $75 bet at 500-1 Odds. His written Wager with Reid specifies that a Normal male with by chromosomes must give birth to a living viable child before the year 2005. With such propositions or dupe said. You olten have to look behind the request and ask. What do they know year while its larger rival the Ladbroke group earned about $120 million from. Retail gambling alone. Most of the Money flows to horse racing dog racing and soccer pools but the country s bookmakers encourage bets of All kinds. Odds Are posted on the likelihood that Elvis lives or that humanoids will be found on Mars. Parents even Wager on whether their Young children will win a Wimbledon title or the British open before their 25th birthdays the parents of one Jack Hamlet age 4, recently bet the equivalent of $7.50 with Ladbroke s at the country s bookmakers encourage bets of All kinds. Odds Are posted on the likelihood that Elvis lives or that humanoids will be found on Mars. That we Diu i i1 no i a thess hki1 to of i he a one i if the a h hut in Tun in Cassand 50,000 to 1 that their Jack would become Golf Champion of Britain before 2015. Now the British government after decades of hand wringing about this sort of profligacy has decided to get in on the action. A contract for Britain s first National lottery since the Early 19th Century designed to create a new British millionaire each week was awarded this Spring to a consortium dub tin Camelot. Us operators Hope to hold the fir it nationally televised drava Iii in november. I m , Nef an Nate Tref was wed As a threat by the restricting advertising by bookmakers and forbidding windows in their retail outlets a Law evidently designed to shield British eyes from the evils within. Crimped by such rules the bookmakers have taken to bizarre bets As a Way to galvanize Public attention Odds Are posted regularly on which television soap opera characters will marry or die horribly which books will win prestigious literary awards and even on whether troubled euro Disney will close before the Channel Tunnel linking Britain and France opens eventuality rated at 1.6 to. 1 by covering such disparate subjects the Odd makers risk getting a few bets badly wrong. For example Ladbroke s lost about $75,000 late in 1993 when the childrens cult figure or. Bobby posted Britain s number one Christmas recording single a popular betting topic. The bookmakers say they Are victimized occasionally by bettors with an inside track such As a sound Engineer at a London and Agency who made a killing because he knew a pop song he helped record would be promoted in a Levi s and Campaign and thus be pushed toward the top of the charts. But the bookmakers say such Bonanza Are fair enough if they take the bet it s their Job to research the topic thoroughly. Besides most of Britain s gamblers Are like Reid the woman backing the Prospect of a male giving birth. She made Wager after Reading a newspaper account of a woman who earned .1 child to term in intestine. Fac a Man Muht do the same seemed to me like a lot a Al fog Rev Ion. Realis " flu f fes make i rth and lion sea f its s by Ero mics the e of be our Nis for ilif., inv in go of by Ion n4 k beginning to galvanize show that in 1963, after a powerful bomb killed eight policemen in Palermo Pope Paul i urged Palermo s. Archbishop Cardinal Ernesto Ruffini to condemn the mafia. / Ruffini rebuffed the revert. Mafia he once said. As far As i know it s a Brand of u two decades later however the sicilian Church was Ripe for change. In september 1982, when the mafia killed Gen. Alberto Dalla Chiesa the top anti mafia official in Sicily together with his wife and bodyguards Ruffini s successor Cardinal Salvatore Pappalardo declared spiritual War on the mafia in a Sermon to the throng at the general s funeral. Anti mafia priests like Turturro Call that Day the turning Point. With that pained cry of Cardinal Pappalardo Turturro said the Church has come Back to be inc or the Rex Rosa � my Ola. A Bishop of Cefalu a Sictoy. Irv july it tease 3 he results Eva Survey of t Tox s oium prints of at Reveau a Hutu to can of a via Vav a orc term u mkt on she Miu a by 35 Pencer i f a refs st.rtfyeci Irr i t of tx.fi.1 or in 6 Vil to to j.ih3 re it a a0 a. .h.r,.5 0a r t.-., s 3, i to the stars and st8tf�f s
