Word: bets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even a shipment of California smog had arrived on the prevailing westerlies, and Baltimore Mayor Theodore McKeldin, 66, might have been tempted to think that Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty, 57, was a welsher. Hadn't McKeldin bet Yorty a barrel of Chesapeake oysters against some comparably juicy California product that the Orioles would beat the Dodgers in the Series? And hadn't the Birds walloped the Bums in four straight? Well, yes, squirmed Yorty, but he hadn't really accepted the wager: "Under local law I could not bet." Nonetheless, Yorty informed reporters, "I am sending...
...seven." Moreover, as a two-time loser, however narrow the margins, he lacks popular appeal. "Here we are, the party people, just made for Dick Nixon," said an Indiana pro. "But go down the street and ask the people what they think of him. Not so much, I'll bet." Still, Nixon holds several trumps: he has earned the gratitude of hundreds of Republicans over years of doughty campaigning, and in the event of another conservative-moderate clash, he may be the only man acceptable to both sides...
...imprisonment is "civilly dead"-his family can even dispense with his name. Mark Fein was a respectable Manhattan container manufacturer who secretly consorted with gamblers and prostitutes. Last year Fein received a 30-year-to-life sentence for murdering his bookie to avoid paying a $23,898 World Series bet. To shield her three children from the seamy publicity, Fein's wife Nancy sought to resume her maiden name of Nahon. Permission granted, ruled Judge George Starke last week. Not only has Fein lost all civil rights, from suing to voting to making contracts; any contract he ever made...
...governorships-California, Minnesota, Arkansas -as a way of chemically rejuvenating their party. Richard Nixon calls the election "the most important of my lifetime," confidently predicts a G.O.P. gain of 40 House seats, three in the Senate, six governorships. To this, Vice President Hubert Humphrey replies: "I'll bet Nixon a 20-lb. Minnesota turkey against a dinner at any restaurant he chooses that his predictions are 50% wrong. When it's all over, we'll have the best damn dinner we've ever...
Although the upturn left bears licking their wounds, few Wall Streeters were willing to bet that the bulls were firmly on top once more. In spite of some rosy earnings reports-IBM last week reported a record third-quarter profit of $131 million-many investors are still worried about the possibility of an economic downturn next year...