Word: bets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neither the machine nor the President's 'copter pilot has yet been selected; the Air Force is now testing various 'copters for suitability, and Draper, who has flown 'copters himself, is checking out Army and some civilian pilots for possible employment. Hottest Washington bet on the machine that will win out: Bell's plush, 2,350-lb. 47-J, which normally carries four, including pilot and copilot, has a range of 194 miles and a 108-m.p.h. top speed...
...love to bet at Beacon Park...
Covering its bet on the F-105, North American is also building the long-range ramjet Navaho missile. But development of better missiles may cut back the Navaho program by a sharp 90% in 1958. Yet North American expects to be in healthy shape. Along with Boeing, the company is deep in design studies for a radical new supersonic bomber. Even better, North American was one of the first to jump into rocket engines, and its Rocketdyne division has juicy contracts for missile projects, including the huge Martin and Convair ICBMs...
Smiley (London Films; 20th Century-Fox), made in Australia, describes the adventures of an Australian Tom Sawyer named Smiley Greevins (Colin Petersen), with more backblocks yabber than you'll hear from a gum tree full of galahs. Wants a bike, that joey, and you can bet the creeping bent he'll bottom on the gold. He gives up his lollies and embarks on a course of hard yacker for the local John, Sergeant Flaxman (Chips Rafferty). He even swings a government stroke or two for the amen-snorter (Ralph Richardson), bonzer old dag that...
...Horseplayers all over the U.S. groaned to learn that Postmaster General Summerfield has forbidden the use of the U.S. mails to Mexico's Caliente Future Book. Otherwise restricted to on-course pari-mutuel betting or illegal off-course bookmakers, Caliente's bettors could formerly mail a bet to the Mexican book months in advance of such big stakes as the Garden State or the Kentucky Derby, pick their horse from a long list of possible entries at odds as high as 1,000 to 1, get back 10% of their bet if their horse simply started...