Word: bets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EVERYBODY'S GOT A SYSTEM (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A special program on the gaming urge that infects all gamblers, from the penny-ante poker player to the bet-a-million stockbroker. Terry-Thomas narrates the documentary, which looks at a British betting shop, Aqueduct race track and Las Vegas...
...tour buses from Brussels and Amsterdam clutter up the Grand Casino, while serious Monégasque students of chance clang away at the one-armed bandits lined up across the street from the elegant Hotel de Paris. In France, the postwar development of le tierce, a combination racing bet and lottery, which attracts 3,000,000 Frenchmen every Sunday, has made horse-track betting the country's fifth-largest industry. And in Britain, bookies, football pools and bingo, together with the legalization in 1960 of private table
...which excellence is mere entree, and they carry or hide within themselves large quantities of insecurity or humility. Under such ideal conditions as the Loeb appears to provide, they are made particularly aware that their ineptitudes will be revealed. So they worry, and limit their imaginations, and, I would bet, spend far too much energy trying not to make mistakes...
...great horse, but he still lost a race. Native Dancer was also beaten once, and Kelso now loses almost as often as he wins. A ticket on Bret Hanover, though, is more like a U.S. Treasury bond than a bet. A hulking, 1,100-lb. colt who sleeps like a baby (ten hours a day), eats like an elephant (twelve quarts of oats a day) and is hooked on peppermint drops, Bret Hanover has been to the post 28 times and won every race-by the total margin of 100-lengths...
...bet all its chips on Diem," Mecklin writes. "We were stuck with an all-or-nothing policy. It had to work, like a Catholic marriage or a parachute." But when the Buddhist crisis ignited in May 1963, the policy went up in flames. What began as a seemingly simple dispute over the display of religious flags soon became a cleverly conducted campaign to unseat Catholic Diem. U.S. reporters fanned the flames with pro-Buddhist stories that enraged Diem, who refused to believe that Washington did not control the press in the same...