Word: bets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Black Friday. The U.S.'s payoff bet is Ben Schriever's ICBM, and Schriever knows how to play for high stakes. One Friday a month, a day his staff calls Black Friday, he summons his key men into his project control room in WDD headquarters in Inglewood. This room is a massive vault whose walls, floors and ceilings are built of 6-in. concrete reinforced by steel; its treasures are guarded when the room is empty by two opaque glass hemispheres embedded in the ceiling, so sensitive that they will register an intruder's breath and sound...
...addition to these elite, several sophomore Whiz Kids blossomed out to join the ranks of the heroic. John deKiewiet was unbeaten all year in the high jump. Consistently around six feet, two inches, he appears sure bet to erase the one blot on Harvard's glorious escutcheon--a feeble 6 feet 31/2 inch high jump record...
...snowy last fling, which nipped peach buds and forsythia blooms brought forth early by a false spring. Wichita grumbled about its flurry of nonfatal but highly uncomfortable flu. Miami complained of nagging rain-but 23,026 racing fans braved it on Gulfstream Park's opening day to bet $1,863,447. Texas rejoiced in the recent soaking rains that brightened parched fields with blankets of green and stirred hopes that the seven-year drought might be ending at last...
Gambling Man. In London, Walter Howes, 84, whose wife of 60 years willed him only $280 of an $8,400 estate because he "squandered" his money betting, won a life income from the estate after telling a judge he lost two 25? bets in 1929, had never bet since...
Ingley rules the 600 field, with Yale's Bob Skerritt and Cornell's Art Boland also threats. Crimson coach Bill McCurdy will counter with captain Dick Wharton and French Anderson. Wharton looks like the best bet here, but Anderson, recently recovered from a leg injury, could surprise...