Word: bets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even Jimmy Breslin, an original investor and contributing editor of New York magazine, "woulda bet anything in the world it'd be nothin' but a memory by now." But the breezy weekly surprised the skeptics by celebrating its first birthday last week...
...over the next eight years), the U.S. still seems likely to build an SST. The Concorde, for which airlines have taken 74 "options," will probably reap the first harvest, because it is scheduled to be in service by 1971. Unless Nixon has an unanticipated change of heart, a fair bet is that the U.S. SST will be airborne...
Vellucci, defending the name change, said "I really think that there's too much fighting and killing in this world. I'll bet you can go down the street and see 200 people and not one will be smiling. I think it's nice to have a little humor...
Peter Carter broke an ankle skiing in Argentina last summer and the injury has never healed completely. Nevertheless, he has performed consistently all season and rates as Harvard's best bet in the downhill...
...prince of the enfants terribles of French existentialism. His death in 1959 at the age of 38 was sudden, but it could hardly be called unexpected. While he was alive, the only one of his books that sold was a semi-pornographic novel that he'd written for a bet under a pseudonym; his most successful song, "Le Désérteur" (made popular in the States by Peter, Paul and Mary) was banned in France for its frank anti-war message. As a rule the critics treated him with amused tolerance. Recently, however, an enthusiastic Vian cult...