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...inside information on teams he uses a network of underground informants called "readers," who have contacts with coaches, players, owners, even locker-room attendants. Their job is to collect material about players' physical conditions, troubles with girl friends or wives, and other dicey dope. These "friends," as Martin calls them, funnel their findings to Las Vegas several times a week. This is an expensive intelligence operation...
...point of being raw. He had, for example, carefully kept his grandson dancing on a string of unease over this guide boat. On the one hand, he wanted it to be as vivid as only uncertainty could make it; and, on the other, he could not resist the dicey gaming around, the spirals of manipulation that were the actual texture of his life...
...court its suit demanding that Nixon turn over tapes and other documents relevant to Watergate. Unlike Cox, the committee faces the possibility that the courts may duck its dispute with the President. Indeed, one leading professor of constitutional law, Yale's Alexander M. Bickel, considered the proposition so dicey that he recommended that the committee seek legislation giving the courts jurisdiction in the case. Ervin rejected this course, however, because it would be time-consuming and, as one committee staffer put it, "tantamount to an impeachment proceeding against the President...
...something of a daredevil during his 15 years of flying. He lost his license in 1966 for flying an overweighted airplane in Florida, but was back in good standing with the FAA in 1968. There may still be some questions about his judgment, although flying in Alaska is a dicey enterprise. When the Jonz plane took off from Anchorage, cloudy, turbulent flying conditions were forecast...
...Protestant majority must now form its third government in two years. Chichester-Clark's successor faces a dicey assignment: not only is Northern Ireland wrapped in its worst crisis in the 50 years since partition, but no one appears to know how to end it. Speaking in Parliament of the problems just before he stepped down last week, Chichester-Clark had only one scarcely reassuring word of advice for his successor. "Anyone who comes to this dispatch box," he said, "will have to face the problems just as I have done...