Word: ace
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intrepid reporter and pulse counter to the Nation; Craig Claiborne, gourmet par excellence; Orville Prescott on books, Bosley Crowther on movies, Ross Parmenter on music; Seymour Topping reporting from Moscow, Drew Middleton from London, Roy Silver from Rockville Center, David Halberstam from wherever there was trouble, and Farnsworth Fowle, ace of the city-side crew...
Olivier is the sole ace in this nearyarborough, but he is superb. After all, he's been playing Prometheus in various guises since Richard III, and Weir is a worthy successor to Archie Rice of The Entertainer. The high point of the film is his accusation from the dock, an indictment of English life for being stuffy, unsympathetic, and dirty-minded, as powerful a speech in its way as was the song "Why Should I Bother to Care?" that Rice sang in the other film. Sir Laurence points up the full character of the schoolteacher so well that at times...
...Karts & 10? Parts. Offered the wheel of a blood-red factory Ferrari in 1958, Gurney came within an ace of victory at Le Mans and again at Rheims; both times his co-drivers wrecked the cars. At the Dutch Grand Prix in 1960, the brakes failed on his British-built BRM; the car hurtled off the track killing a spectator and breaking Gurney's left arm. Nowhere has Gurney's luck been worse than at his home-town Riverside International Raceway, a course he knows blindfolded. Last March, he won a $13,250 stock car race...
Knowing when to stand and when to ask for another card is, of course, the heart of the game. Thorp's chart for this differentiates between what he calls "soft" hands-hands that contain an ace and are therefore less likely to go over 21 (aces count as either 1 or 11)-and "hard" hands, which contain no ace. For example, when the dealer is showing a nine or ten, a soft hand should draw, even on 19, because the ace in it can be taken as 1 if necessary (reducing the 19 to 9), whereas in the same...
...Ace up Sleeve. And Field had yet another ace up his sleeve: Jock Whitney. For more than a year. Field had argued that two such ardent Republicans as he and the Herald Trib's boss were a natural pair, one that certainly made more sense than Graham's oil-and-water mixture of Norman and Otis Chandler's conservative Los Angeles Times and the liberal Washington Post. Whitney finally agreed to tie the Herald Trib's small though distinguished syndicate (54 papers) to Marshall Field's big one-a union that, once consummated, will...