Word: bets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bloody Game. To accommodate the Americans, craps have made their first appearance in London. At The Pair of Shoes club, one Texan was doing so well recently that he was finally riding $50,000. "You already own the second and third floors," said the owner, covering the bet. "You might as well own the first too." The Texan rolled an eight and took eleven tense flings before crapping out. Observed another American: "The dice get as cold here as they do anywhere else...
...never yet saw, when you set up a department that it didn't grow and proliferate. If we're ever going to put an end to this gargantuan growth of government, it will have to be done at this end of Pennsylvania Avenue, not the other." No Bet. At one point Dirksen challenged Connecticut Democrat Abraham Ribicoff, floor manager of the bill, to 1) write down the initial number of employees in the new department, and 2) put the list in an envelope, along with a $100 bill. "I'll put in a $100 bill too," said...
...cases to date, has yet to win a mass following in the U.S., despite his fine ear for Gallic nuance and a geographer's eye for locale. One enterprising reader, 1965 Harvard Graduate Roy Cobb, recently rediscovered Sax Rohmer, whose Fu Manchu books, he predicts, are a sure bet for rediscovery-at least by the camp set. But some of the best contemporary mystery writers remain curiously underappreciated. Among them are Englishman Andrew Garve (The Cuckoo Line Affair); John D. MacDonald, the O'Hara of the whodunit; Australia's Arthur W. Upfield, whose detective hero, Napoleon Bonaparte...
Genocidas & Torturers. Real news was light last week: the OAS peace talks remained stalemated, and middle-reading liberal Héctor García Godoy continued to be the best bet for provisional President. Meantime, Junta General Antonio Imbert Barreras and Rebel Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deñó were holding their fire. Not so the new scandal press. After having its fun with General Palmer, Patria (which claims 7,000 readers) ran a picture of a Dominican beauty dancing cheek to cheek with a "Yankee invader." Read the caption darkly: "She will pay for her collaboration." The soldier...
...Bathrooms have mirror walls, marble sink counters, built-in ice-cube makers and overhead infrared lamps. A tri-level restaurant affords virtually every table a front-row view of the ocean. Rockefeller's total costs come to an astronomical $100,000 per room-a handsome bet on the hope that intelligent and affluent tourists will spend the extra effort to get to his faraway paradise rather than stop short at Waikiki Beach...