Word: betting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agreement left Humphrey free and clear to set up the best-bet strategy for stopping the Democratic presidential frontrunner, Massachusetts Senator Jack Kennedy. That best bet: 1) get himself identified in the Senate and on the stump as the favorite son of Midwestern Democrats; 2) challenge and beat Jack Kennedy in the Midwest in the important Wisconsin presidential primary; 3) fight hard for the well-heeled support of the strongest anti-Kennedy forces, those still hoping against hope for Adlai Stevenson...
Hurdler Joel Landau is the varsity's best bet for a first place. Landau will be facing Georgetown's Al Hoddinott, who edged him out at the wire in last year's finals, but if the Crimson ace keeps his from under control he should come out ahead...
Beyond that, the solid-fuel Minuteman is still in the primary stages, is by no means the sure gap-closer for 1964 that Administration estimates indicate. The point: the Administration ought not to bet so heavily in strategic doctrine upon a weapon still in its infancy. And the U.S. deterrent to war will not deter unless it is backed up by enough protected missiles to strike the retaliatory blow...
Army General Maxwell Taylor, 57, completing a four-year tour, as Chief of Staff, will retire. Best bet to replace Taylor: General Lyman Lemnitzer, 59, Vice Chief of Staff, like Taylor a paratrooper and holder of a lustrous field record in World War II and Korea, trusted friend of Dwight Eisenhower since serving as Ike's assistant chief of staff for the North African campaign...
American Airlines put a big bet this week on the future of air freight. To Douglas Aircraft went a $4,250,000 contract to turn ten of American's piston-engined DC-7B airliners into air freighters. All passenger fittings will be ripped out; the relatively new (four years or less) luxury planes will get heavy-duty floors, stronger fuselages, two huge cargo doors. When the last of the freighter 73 goes into service next year, it will give American a 20-plane cargo fleet with more than twice the line's current capacity...