Word: betting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should also keep a close watch for Connecticut state troopers, who are likely to give you about as nice a reception as the state of California gave the medfly. If you're really unfortunate, and the Conn bears catch you doing more than 65 mph, your best bet is to be super polite. Otherwise, they're capable of taking away your license, and depending on the circumstances--such as the odor of your breath--throwing you into the pokey...
...College is throwing a bash with the band "Opus" from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Admission is $2 with a Harvard I.D. Go to Berkely early in the evening so you have time to catch the party coordinated by Ezra Stiles and Morse Colleges. This looks like the best bet for the evening if you like large gatherings where everyone drinks too much. There will be two live bands, a full bar, and lots and lots of people. Although it costs three bucks with a Harvard ID, it would be worthwhile...
...hopes alive. For Harvard to win the Ivies, it must defeat Yale next Saturday in the Yale Bowl and then pray for Penn to upset Dartmouth in Philadelphia. A Harvard win is a definite possibility, but after Penn's performance Saturday, it's probably not a good idea to bet your Harvard shot glass that the Quakers will even cover the spread against Dartmouth...
...Sutter and Robert Burger, who checked the cover story, tallied the totals ballot by ballot. Senior Writer George Church, who wrote the story, was impressed by President Reagan's ability to turn the tide that had seemed to be running so strongly against him. "If I'd bet on the outcome, I would have lost," he says. "You should never underestimate the persuasive power of the President, or of the number of people who will go along with him just because he is the President." Concurs National Editor John Elson: "The AWACS question was badly mishandled by Reagan...
...established events in Monaco and Montreal. The fifth-place finish by Brazilian Nelson Piquet was enough to give him the 1981 world championship. As for high rollers, Sports Book Manager Jimmy Vaccaro observed: "The race just doesn't draw the breed of gambler the fights do. Boxing people bet everything; a race fan plays twenty-one with his wife...