Word: bets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Equipped with Rocky Mountain-climbing Hall-Scott motors, the engine can travel up to 85 miles per hour, "and you can bet that she'll really steam down that road with all cylinders popping," Lynch forecast. The engine is the third of only three of its kind ever made. Cambridge owns two of the machines, while Memphis has the only other...
...better scholar and teacher than a Group I or II man. Rather, he said that the GSAS ought not invariably to prefer the Group I or II man, and that in a number of cases the lively and imaginative Group III man might turn out to be a better bet in the long...
When audience research showed the TV networks that nearly as many fathers as kids watched western movies, they realized that they were missing a bet. So, with a clatter of hoofs and a hi-yo, the networks this season launched a flood of "grownup" westerns and began drawing a bead on the competition. Last week CBS's Gunsmoke shot up past an NBC Spectacular (Max Liebman's Dearest Enemy) by a score of 20.8 to 17.3 in the Trendex ratings. At ABC, the Cheyenne segment of Warner Bros. Presents has piled up so many more viewers than...
...independents (who hold a five to four edge in the new council) are solid," Sullivan said. While refusing to name their choice, he implied that they have already agreed on their candidate for mayor. "But in any case," he added, "you can bet that no CCA man will sit in the high chair come January...
...never gone abroad made it. Neighbors from Tulsa, Wheeling and Santa Barbara ran into neighbors in Regent Street, Place Pigalle and Via Veneto. A neighbor of TIME Advertising Salesman Crowell Hadden learned the hard way how small the world has become. At home in Glen Cove, L.I., he had bet $100 that he could stop smoking longer than Hadden. One night in Paris, not long after, Hadden spotted his friend in a dim Left Bank cave. "There he was," Hadden chuckled, "relaxed and happy-with smoke curling from his cigarette...