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But the huge media interest in card counting on the East Coast continued unabated. The expansion of casino gambling in Atlantic City, with half a dozen new casinos approved and under construction, was eclipsed in the news by the public interest in Uston’s lawsuit against the Casino Control Commission. There had also been a 1979 Sports Illustrated article about Keith Taft’s at-that-time legal concealable blackjack computer, which, naturally, featured Ken Uston modeling the device. Everywhere you turned you saw Ken Uston.