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...came breezing across to take it by four lengths. "Ah!" cried the Duchess of Norfolk, 50, wife of the realm's premier duke. "How I like Newbury!" Indeed, Newbury had been very kind to her. On a wager of 70?, her ladyship collected $7,804.34, the tote jackpot, by backing the winners in all six races...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 28, 1966 | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Jackpot in Libya," a report on the changes in the once-poor North African kingdom since oil was discovered in 1959. Repeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Records, Cinema, Books: Jul. 29, 1966 | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

Even when he struck the jackpot with his half-dozen world-famous uranium mines, two copper mines and an iron mine, he found it impossible to raise production capital in the States; the bulk of it came from Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 10, 1966 | 6/10/1966 | See Source »

...visiting fireman can stop in Hammond (some gambling and prostitution), Whiting (gambling), or Griffith, where the favorite form of recreation is "Lucky 7s" and "Triple 50s," in which the player puts a quarter or half-dollar into a jar, receives a numbered slip, then waits hopefully for his jackpot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indiana: The Abandoned County | 4/29/1966 | See Source »

...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Jackpot in Libya" explores the ramifications of the oil strike in this desert country-2½ times the size of Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Records, Cinema, Books: Apr. 8, 1966 | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

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