Word: bets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...standard encouraging. Perhaps Mrs. Constance Baker Motley, a Negro lawyer for the N.A.A.C.P. who has spent 18 years fighting for Negro rights, summed it up best. Said she: "Voluntary compliance has been unexpectedly good. I would have lost every penny I've got if I had made a bet...
Before the sixth race of the day, which had an entry of six greyhounds, innocent dog players at the track also began to notice that something was up; they found it impossible to get to any of the 31 betting windows. Already ahead of them in line were tough characters who were taking their own sweet time placing two-shilling (280) bets, counting out the sums in small coins and brushing off protests with a snarl. The insiders were placing all their money on "forecast combinations" on the three dogs most likely to lose, thereby running up the odds...
...Fleming to take a round-the-world tour to write some local-color travel pieces for the titillation of its family audience. Fleming did; the aging essays reprinted here are the result. About the closest Fleming got to sin was a $2 taxi dance in Macao and a $100 bet in Las Vegas. Most of the time he hardly troubles to conceal his boredom. Honolulu he found "just another reservation for the pensioners," which he left "without many regrets." Berlin's night life "is certainly not what it used to be." In New York, "I enjoyed myself least...
...eight and Norway's kingpin skipper for the past decade, Harald was named by the Royal Yacht Club to represent his country in the 5.5-meter yacht class at the 1964 Olympics. Sailing the Fram III, designed by U.S. Master Draftsman Bill Luders, Harald is rated a good bet for a medal of some sort, but it had better be gold if he is to maintain status in court circles. Both his father, King Olaf, and his good friend, Greece's King Constantine, hold gold medals for sailing won at the Olympics...
What makes the plot bubble is the Behan people and the Behan gab. There is Pig's Eye O'Donnell the bet runner, Tralee Trembles the wino and ex-poet, M'sieu Le Tramtrack, who spent 30 years abed in an effort to collect damages from a trolley company, and the vigorous old lady of the International...