Word: game
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sustained loyalty, raucous fanaticism and sheer madness, there are few sporting crowds in the world to equal the hockey fans of Montreal. Whenever Les Canadiens are in town, French Canadians jam Montreal's Forum (capacity: 13,531) to shout bilingually (English and French) for their heroes. Every Canadiens game since World War II days has been a sellout, and it is so hard to get tickets that season-ticket holders have been known to dispose of their seats in their wills...
Under shrewd control and held tightly to limits, development through inflation works. But if inflation gets out of hand the currency collapses. Development by debasement of the currency is a tempting game-but a perilous...
...income tax guides, the Hobo News, and paperbound books from James M. Cain to Stendhal. Subscribers to the Wall Street Journal angrily reported that their copies were being stolen from in front of their office doors. No New Yorkers were more dismayed by the strike than the numbers-game players: the payoff number is currently derived from the total mutuel take at Maryland's Pimlico race course, a figure that conveniently is carried by the daily press...
Holiday Bowl Football Game (CBS, 1:30 p.m.). Arizona State College at Flagstaff and Northeastern State College of Oklahoma kick off the post-season football parade...
Omnibus (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Gene Kelly, whose direction of the new Broadway hit Flower Drum Song has kept him busy with Oriental dancing girls, undertakes to prove that dancing is also a "man's game...