Word: bets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senior Writer Michael Demarest, author of this week's cover story, Staff Writer Andrea Chambers, who wrote the accompanying boxes, and Reporter-Researcher Georgia Harbison soaked up some atmosphere by joining Tompkins in a visit to a local OTB parlor. They emerged unscathed, simply by not placing a bet. Demarest was not always so steel-willed. As a member of TIME'S London bureau in the late 1950s, Demarest closely followed the fortunes of a horse named Four Flusher (gambling argot for cheater), which was jointly owned by a few bureau staffers. "Out of loyalty," Demarest says...
...Black Radcliffe Women, the Black Students Science Organization, Diaspora and the Kuumba Singers. Dean Epps has yet to respond. On October 15, the Coalition of Asian Americans presented their demands to Dean Epps. Again, Dean Epps failed to respond. The letter sent on October 28 by Josephine Lok and Bet Har Wong, the women excluded from the Minority Banquet, has not been answered by Dean Epps. Finally, the statement delivered to Dean Epps on November 4 from the Task Force on Affirmative Action remains unanswered...
...together a detailed campaign plan in the weeks before the Republican Convention. The carefully crafted 120-page document advised the President to resist his natural impulse to campaign and instead to stay put in the White House. He lacked the style to win on the hustings; his best bet was to appear presidential while Carter got into trouble on the road. "You cannot overcome the Carter lead on your own no matter what you do," the report warned with almost brutal candor. "You are not now perceived as being a strong, decisive leader by anywhere near a majority...
Bright, personable Governor Christopher ("Kit") Bond, 37, was considered a rising star of the G.O.P. and a sure bet to gain a second term. But in the biggest upset of Tuesday's gubernatorial races, he lost by less than a 1% margin to Democrat Joseph P. Teasdale, 40, a former prosecutor from Jackson County (which covers Independence and Kansas City). Known as "Walkin' Joe" after his unsuccessful trek around the state seeking the Democratic gubernatorial nomination four years ago, Teasdale hammered away at the Republican in debates and TV ads, painting him as a "corporate man" with ties...
...scrutiny. Gass hoards azure words and holds them up to the light: "Blue poplar. Blue palm ... the blue lucy is a healing plant. Blue John is skim milk. Blue backs are Confederate bills. Blue bellies are yankee boys." He squints at past authorities on physics (Democritus, Aristotle, Galen), the bet- ter to glimpse the essence of this protean color in the corner of an eye. The mystery remains, more mysterious because Gass so thoroughly exposes its complexities. Yet the humanist does not visit nature for facts but for creative suggestions, and these Gass offers in abun- dance: "Blue...