Word: aced
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ace in the Hole. The biggest draw of all is the gambling. In 1949, the government opened the door to gamblers, and there are many Puerto Ricans who rue the day. But not the hotelmen. The handle at the island's 13 hotel casinos is conservatively estimated at $50 million a year-which pays the rent, tides the hotels over the lean summer months and brings the tourists back for more. Of the Caribe Hilton's $750,000 profit one year, fully $500,000 came from gambling. Another casino grossed $650,000 in winnings in December alone...
Died. Sumner Sewall, 67, pioneer aviator and Republican Governor of Maine from 1941 to 1945, a World War I ace (seven planes, two balloons) who teamed with Juan Trippe in 1926 to fly the first New York-to-Boston airmail run, as Maine's World War II Governor organized one of the country's first Civil Defense Corps, later returned to aviation as president of American Overseas Airways, helped build it into a major transatlantic carrier before it merged with Trippe's Pan American in 1950; of a heart attack; in Bath...
...college students, we feel that your favorable Johnson bag deserves a zero-cool ace in better than best informative writing. Fortunately, you recognize that the Administration has tubed the Viet Nam skirmish because of an inability to control R.F.ing Buddhists and Viet Cong. Bitchin insight...
...seedings this year are pretty impressive for an intra-university tournament. Top seeded is Bob Hetherington, a former Yale ace and now in his second year at the Divinity School. Hetherington is ranked ninth among U.S. amateurs...
...Blatt won the 50-yard dash against Brown in a good time of 0:05.6 and cleared 12 ft., 6 In. to take second place in the pole vault. If Aggrey Awori runs against him. Blatt will have to settle for second place in the dash, but the B.U. ace should win the vault against Ken Winters, who seems to be stuck around the 12-ft. mark...