Word: bets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regulars go to the track to watch the dogs. They go to bet. The only trouble with the betting is that there's not much to bet on. In horse racing the sharpie has lots of factors to consider--breeding, physical condition, trainer, jock, how heavily the horse has been raced, the frequency of workouts, times, the kinds of races the horse has been in, as well as his record of wins and losses. With dogs, however, the chances are little better than in a game of bingo...
...student (major: history) and sometimes complains that "professors ignore me because they know I'm an athlete." It is Beban's flair for the dramatic that makes him 1) the most exciting college football player in the U.S. and 2) an odds-on bet to win the Heisman Trophy come season...
...Means don't bet too much on these...
...Airport commissioners and their consultants, one of whom was Architect Pereira, were not really caught napping. Volume at the city's old terminal in 1956 was about 3,000,000 passengers a year. Though the forecast for 1965 was 7,000,000, the Los Angeles planners decided to bet on eleven million. Even then, they were short of the mark, and the estimates for this year are close to 20 million, and for 1975 a whopping 55 million...
...response approaches aeluromania. Between her Hudson-view apartment in Manhattan and her handsome country home near Weston, Conn., Sandy now has five dogs and 21 cats. She just can't resist a stray. She has been heard to comment, while emptying yet another box of Kitty Litter: "I bet you wouldn't find Ava Gardner doing this...