Word: bets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some conclusions are probably reasonable from a study of a magazine. For example, you have to assume that the people who advertise have some expectation based on previously known facts of selling their products, so they must make surveys as to whether or not this is a good bet among a given magazine's readership...
...another possibility. Mays is more than the Giants' captain; he is almost a god to his teammates, and the front office makes few moves without consulting him. If he ever wants to add another honor, as the major leagues' first Negro manager, it's a good bet that the job would...
...wackiest pirate of them all isn't even a ballplayer. Bob Prince, 49, the team's radio-TV announcer, is a skinny character who is famous for his loud sport coat and once leaped from a third-floor window into a swimming pool to win a bet. Two weeks ago, when the Pirates changed planes in Dallas, Prince refused to let a stewardess take his tape recorder, explaining: "It's as sensitive as a bomb." He had barely settled into his seat before FBI agents arrived...
...first things Bowman did when he took over the paper was to start sending it to his old friends back at the U.P.I, office in Washington. "I bet they get a laugh out of my covering a sheep-shearing demonstration, but then I chuckle at them-look at what they're doing." As for the future, the headline on Bowman's first editorial still holds: HOME FOR GOOD...
...world. In the summer, more and more of the major U.S. symphony orchestras and dance companies are packing their tubas and tutus, fleeing the sweltering cities for theaters in the sticks. And many of them are settling in and around the place where Diamond Jim and Bet a Million used to gambol...