Word: bets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quite a few people-including the underworld characters hanging around his training camp -that he would button the lip of the twinkle-toed loudmouth who took his title away in Miami last year. Oddsmakers made him the 6-5 favorite, and in Miami the word was that one mobster bet $30,000 on Liston...
...final, and sure, bet is Adlai E. Stevenson, who it was announced in the national press some months ago, will both receive a degree and deliver an address. Gov. Stevenson will come to Harvard fresh from his triumphs in the Security Council's debate off the Dominican Republic
Another good bet for an individual championship is Lynch, who finished second in last year's 440-yard hurdles behind Manhattan's Vince McArdle, who has graduated. Lynch lost to Pittsburgh's Dick Johnson at the Penn relays and to Navy's Cortland Gray in the Heps, but both races were close. The Crimson's captain-elect will double in the 120-yard high hurdles, where he's likely to place if he can approach his season's best time of 14.3. Doubling, however, means running five races, and that's a lot of hurdling...
...Secretary of the Army? It is a safe bet that no more than one out of 100 men in the street would know. For the Army Secretary, like his Air Force and Navy counterparts, is trapped in a limbo of anonymity between Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and the uniformed military chiefs...
Elizabeth must have read the papers, for the next day, at the Bonn city hall, she was positively beaming. When she laid a wreath on the nearby Beethoven monument, the crowd responded with loud cheers and chants of "Elizabet, Eliz-a-bet." That night, after entertaining 88 dignitaries at dinner atop the Petersberg, the Queen and her guests stepped onto the terrace to watch "The Rhine in Flames," a dramatic fireworks display that covered the river halfway to Coblenz, 30 miles away...