Word: betting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meaning to hold together. They were forced to skip, a few things in those hurried early days-among them, a constitution. Last month Pakistan's five-year-old Constituent Assembly began to debate a "Basic Principles Report" that will be used as a guide for constitution-making. Best bet: a democratic republic with a strong executive, outside the British Commonwealth...
...week in Paris. With the champion, Pvt. Sandy Saddler, as a ringside spectator, Philadelphia Negro Percy Bassett pounded France's Ray Famechon into submission with a fourth-round technical knockout. Famechon was not the only loser. French bookies, who backed their favorite against the weight of the money bet at the fight, lost an estimated 800 million francs ($2,288,000) on the fight...
...Korea were aghast over the furor. General Joseph Lawton Collins, Army Chief of Staff, back in Washington after a trip to the Far East, blamed bad reporting, defended Operation Smack as "sound and legitimate." There would be, he said, "many more like it." It'was a safe bet that next time someone would remember what Churchill said about Bunnyhug...
Monet Remembered. Occasionally Schoeller needs a little time. He asks his client to bring a disputed painting back the next day when he has "fresh eyes." Once he makes a decision, laboratory tests rarely prove him wrong. He remembers a friend who bet 50,000 francs that he owned a genuine Monet; indeed, he had the artist's written assurance to prove it. Schoeller still insisted it was false. Finally Monet himself remembered: it was a scene from his childhood haunts. A friend had painted it, but when Monet saw the picture years later, it looked so familiar...
...gamble, Studebaker staked $27 million for new tools, sure that the growing interest in sports cars indicates an entirely new trend in U.S. auto design. From Belgium's annual auto show in Brussels, where the car was first publicly shown last week, came the first evidence that the bet might pay off. Alongside the fanciest cars of Europe and 20 U.S. makes, the Studebaker was the sensation of the show. "Revolutionary," "spectacular," "beautiful," reported the press. Said Roger Darteyre, auto reporter of Le Soir, Belgium's largest daily, and technical expert for the Belgian Royal Automobile Club...