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...emerald tide in Atlantic City, the only U.S. city outside Nevada that permits casino gambling, has not escaped the attention of other states. A group called Let's Help Florida, which hopes to rejuvenate decaying Miami Beach with casino gambling, claims to have enough voters' signatures to hold a referendum on the issue this November. But Governor Reubin Askew is organizing a statewide campaign to fight the proposal. The New York legislature has approved a state constitutional amendment to allow casinos. If the same measure is approved a second time, next year, as required by state...
...racing is quite popular in Ireland, as well as the U.S., and it's common to see the word "Imp." (import) in the program next to a dog's name, indicating that he hails from the Emerald Isle. Donald P. (for Patrick, of course) Cuddy, a Dubliner, has been in this country since 1969 racing his dogs. Sitting next to the track in his tweed jacket, drinking a cup of hot chocolate, Cuddy speaks in a gentle brogue about his 44 years in the dog business...
...snow-bound Crimson golf team will be escaping Cambridge over the spring break for those Elysian Fields of golf, the emerald fairways of Florida. The eight golfers embarking on the Southern sojourn look to be the nucleus of Harvard's strongest squad since the Crimson qualified for the NCAA tournament four years...
...what turned Davis into a complete original was his perception of and enthusiasm for the city. Nothing in French art, other than Leger, resembled Davis' syncopated images of urban life. The blaring posterish color- yellows, scarlets, blacks, emerald greens, a high obtrusive fuchsia - and the writhing knots of line, the words blinking like neon signs, the beat and pulsation of the space: this was visual jazz, American-style, and in deed some of Davis' titles, like The Mellow Pad, 1945-51, were couched in the musicians' argot...
Allen was a womanizer. When his wife first discovered this, she coolly went to Cartier and charged a large emerald to his account. It was her "compensation," she told Allen, and every time he strayed he would pay a similar price. Mosley does not record how large Mrs. Dulles' jewelry collection became, though Sister Eleanor guesses that "there were at least a hundred women in love with Allen at one time or another...