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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard professionalism of their Western counterparts when the real money starts flowing. Said one: "When the players start losing mortgage payments or food money, maybe "they'll start getting nasty." Since gamblers as well as dealers in Atlantic City are likely to be neophytes, Resorts International plans to offer instructional films on the various games and a section for practice with play money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Betting on the Boardwalk | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

...Patrice and Louis Wolfson-the owners of Affirmed-have been one of the most successful racing couples in the sport. Their Harbor View stable is now the leading money winner. They did not buy Affirmed; they bred him through three generations, and Wolfson has turned down an offer of $8 million for the nation's prize Thoroughbred. Says he: "When you breed and race a horse like this, you wouldn't take $15 million or $20 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Nice, Quiet Life | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

...range: Yale, 69%; San Jose State (Calif.), 67%; Stanford, 65%; University of California at Berkeley, 60%; M.I.T., 51%; Princeton, 50%; Lewis and Clark College (Ore.), 50%. As M.I.T.'s Richardson notes, "Anybody in the trade knows that if you get over 50% of the kids to whom you offer admissions, you're doing better than average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: This University Wants YOU! | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

...standing committee that would be created would primarily concern itself with encouraging departments to offer courses in women's studies, and would probably not offer courses on its own, Keenan said...

Author: By Edward Josephson, | Title: Faculty Committee to Present Proposal on Women's Studies | 5/24/1978 | See Source »

Ruth E. Tringham, associate professor of Anthropology and a member of the Faculty Committee, said yesterday the standing, committee "would offer much more substantial encouragement to women's studies than has ever been given before," but added she did not know if there would be any "financial encouragement...

Author: By Edward Josephson, | Title: Faculty Committee to Present Proposal on Women's Studies | 5/24/1978 | See Source »

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