Word: bets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said it is impossible to predict Harvard's final figure, but he did say, "If I was putting my money down as a bet, I'd say we will be down, maybe, one and a half to two million dollars...
...right decision." Committee sentiment seems almost evenly split, with prospects in the full Senate equally uncertain if an aid bill reaches the floor. Unless some aid measure also emerges from the House, however, any Senate approval will be in vain. In practical terms, the Administration's best bet seems to lie in getting approval to shift existing Pentagon funds to keep ammunition flowing to Cambodia rather than in seeking new money...
...handicap a horse race simply by picking a jockey, regardless of his mount, the trainer or the opposition, is usually considered a form of gambling insanity. Not so last week at New York's Aqueduct race track. There, a $2 win bet on the same jockey in each of eight races on the same afternoon would have paid off $56. The jockey was Angel Cordero Jr., who has been almost unbeatable since the opening of Aqueduct's spring meeting last month. In 15 days of racing at the "Big A," Cordero has ridden 48 winners and finished...
...Child, a 13th century reclining Madonna and a 14th century silver reliquary attributed to Giacomo di Sulmona. In the whole week more than 180 works of art were stolen in Italy; an average of 27 a day, one every six hours from churches in Tuscany alone. One may safely bet that by 1980 most of these things-some trivial, some precious in their testimony to lost hierarchies of consciousness-will have gone through the big auction houses or been sold by "respectable" private dealers in Europe or the U.S. That is what the art market comes down to: a brutish...
...formula show the way the Pudding is, and that it was put together by students on a low budget without the certainly of trips to Bermuda. If you want to do something for the aid of Harvard theater and undergraduate playwrights, Mad About Mintz is a good bet; as far as pure amoral fun goes, though, the palm goes to the Pudding...