Word: bets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bet $1,000." In the eighth hour, a Matra-B.R.M. and a C.D.-Peugeot collided in the tight Tertre-Rouge turn directly in front of Ludovico Scarfiotti's speeding Ferrari P3. Scratch one P3. The second P3 went out with a broken gearbox after only ten hours, and the last of the Ferrari factory prototypes ground to a stop six hours later with a blown head gasket. With Fords running one-two-three and no more challengers in sight, Team Manager Carroll Shelby ordered a slowdown. Then Beebe got an inspiration. To make the inevitable Ford victory...
...equally proficient in courses ranging from Schiller to statistics. She has won a Woodrovv Wilson Fellowship, which she will use to pursue a Ph.D. in anthropology at Yale. There, she assumes, her succession of A's "will all be over." But no one who knows Daisy will bet on that...
...girl." Last week he walked off with some thing better: an astonishingly large victory in California's Republican gubernatorial primary. The Democrats, by contrast, gave Governor Pat Brown his third-term nomination by a sufficiently meager margin to establish Reagan as an attractive even-money bet in November's general election...
...seizing on Viet Nam as a long-shot bet, these candidates have inverted most of the standard political equations. In some races, Republicans are the soft-liners and Democrats the hardliners; in others, antiwar Democrats are running on anti-Administration platforms against Republicans who go all the way with L.B.J. Bitterest of all are the primaries, in which the war has Democrats clawing at Democrats and Republicans at Republicans...
...made their last pitch, the military disappeared into the barracks for a day. After one of the bitterest and bloodiest years in the country's turbulent history, some 1,200,000 Dominicans finally went to the polls last week for their second free election since 1924. Forecasters had bet on a close result. Instead, Moderate Joaquin Balaguer, 59, won in a landslide, defeating Leftist Juan Bosch, 56, by 745,700 votes to 487,600-almost the same margin by which Bosch himself won the presidency...