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Sitting tight in my dorm room, I watched Drew Bledsoe's climactic touchdown drive with an academic indifference characteristic of the sports bettor. Let the Patriots win it, I brashly told my roommate. At 24-21, they still don't cover the spread...
...assertion that the government can operate the gambling industry better than the private sector is also incorrect. Adjusting for the fact that only betting with the government is legal, any bettor would much prefer a bookmaker. Bookmakers typically pay out 95 cents for every dollar bet, whereas state lotteries pay approximately 48 cents. Bookmakers pay on the spot, instead of stretching a million dollars into twenty annual payments of $50,000. They also offer much better odds: If bookmakers gave 13 million-to-one-odds, they would never take any bets at all; the only reason the government...
...Hundreds of colleges and universities all over the country" may face a minority hiring problem. But the staff unfortunately neglects to see that Harvard is not just any university. When Harvard makes decisions, it sets an example--for bettor or for worse. The issue of minority hiring is no exception...
...Jack Klugman are paired for the first time ever in parts other than fussy Felix and macho Oscar -- but not very much other. Randall plays a fey, naive would-be poet who writes greeting-card verses and as a hobby handicaps horse races. Klugman plays a boozing, brawling professional bettor who discovers that Randall never picks the wrong horse and press-gangs him into partnership. In lesser roles are such familiar stage and screen faces as John Beal, Joey Faye, Ellen Greene, Julie Hagerty, Zane Lasky and Jerry Stiller. With John Tillinger, one of the ablest directors of comedy...
...long? Though the paddle wheels have barely started churning, a riverboat race has begun. Illinois is trumpeting the enticements of unlimited wagering and dismissing its Iowa competition as penny-ante stuff for beginners. "The bettor is the loser when you have a limit," says Illinois state senator Denny Jacobs. "There's no way for him to win back his money in a four-hour cruise...