Word: bets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fair bet that Yovicsin will have some changes in pass defense ready for Roberts this afternoon, and it's an even better bet that the changes won't involve any basic changes in defensive strategy. More likely, line coach Jim Lentz is going to point his charges at Roberts, press a button and scream...
Polo & Headhunting. Macapagal's nation, after 18 years of independence, is an odd admixture of Spanish and American cultures. Crew-cut kids in pastel hot-rods drag for beers along Manila's broad, sleepy Roxas Boulevard. In the back streets, men smoking fat, green cigars bet on cockfights and hard-fought jai alai matches. One church has "Ave Maria" picked out in electric lights above the door. Manila's eleven daily newspapers (six in English) crackle with scare headlines reporting the latest murders, rapes and pirate raids (which still occur at a rate of one a week...
During the years of these diaries, John Quincy was Secretary of State, later President, but his son does not have much to say about politics-though it seems he made a bet against his father's winning the 1824 election and had to pay up. Intensely proud of his lineage, a bit of a snob, he considered most politicians "hogs" or "fops," and he was,sure that politics was injurious to "the heart, the morals, the interest and the happiness of life." What he liked best about Washington was its Southern location: "The good people of the North...
Local sporting gentlemen, however, know all about this. They know about Mitchell and Marks, and they know about Harvard's injuries. And still, you can't bet on Harvard without giving away 10 to 14 points
Ahead of that pack, McCurdy hopes, will be Harvard's All-American junior Walt Hewlett, an team captain Bill Crain. Hewlett, an easy victory in last Saturday's sweep of UMass, is a good bet to place first again against Providence...