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Play it as it lays, Harry Wyeth told his daughter. Wyeth, a gambler in the respected, dead-end tradition of the pioneer. Losing their home in Reno, he moved his wife and child to Silver Wells, Nevada, there built a motel "that would have been advantageously situated at a freeway exit had the freeway been built." Maria grows up, in turn loses, in Los Angeles, in Vegas, in marriage and at motherhood. Ends up in Neuropsychiatric. "I was raised to believe that what came in on the next roll would always be better than what went out on the last...
Play it as it lays, Harry Wyeth told his daughter. Wyeth, a gambler in the respected, dead-end tradition of the pioneer. Losing their home in Reno, he moved his wife and child to Silver Wells, Nevada, there built a motel "that would have been advantageously situated at a freeway exit had the freeway been built." Maria grows up, in turn loses, in Los Angeles, in Vegas, in Marriage and at motherhood. Ends up in Neuropsychiatric. "I was raised to believe that what came in on the next roll would always be better than what went out on the last...
...words of the libel suit that Raphael later brought against her-"that he pretended, and still pretends to hold an academic title to which he is not entitled." She also said that he had "strange associations with very dubious people-a man who has underground connections, a card gambler and a smuggler," and that he "visited dubious places of entertainment, where he received special treatment, and neglected his family." Golda Meir's strong moral views are well known; Raphael did not get the post...
...name were an individual's, that would sound like the sort of marker a winning gambler might pick up in some fantastic, high-stakes crap game. In fact, it is a similar form of IOU-a sample of the unsecured and loosely regulated kind of corporate credit known as commercial paper. Until the collapse of the Penn Central, commercial paper was the nation's fastest-growing type of credit, but now it has become a prime source of financial worry. By issuing commercial paper, U.S. corporations have saddled themselves with an enormous burden of short-term debt that...
Ravenel, the "Riverboat Gambler," was a junior in 1959, and Harvard compiled a 0-3 record and finished third in the league. It was the first of ten straight winning seasons...