Word: paris
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case in the New York Court of Appeals. Gambling debts are legally collectible in Puerto Rico, noted the court's 5-to-2 majority, and New York is bound to honor a "foreign right" unless it violates "some prevalent conception of good morals." New York does permit pari-mutuel betting, and "public sentiment in New York is only against unlicensed gambling." Given this quasi approval, ruled the majority, "injustice would result" if New Yorkers could renege on losses in any state where gambling "contracts" are binding...
...Dahlman, 21, dropped out of New York City's Wagner College this fall and began to devote full time to the pari-mutuel teaching machines on the oval campus of Yonkers Raceway. His discriminating bets on the trotters soon put him $15,000 ahead, surely enough to make him an honor student among dropouts. Then, fortnight ago, he broke the record at Yonkers U., picking twin-double winners two nights in succession and walking off with $176,482.20 in prize money (half the lifetime earnings of the average college graduate...
Bobby Ussery is not a classy rider. He shifts around in the saddle, stretches too far forward, and arches too high off the horse. Fans of a bygone smoothy like Eddie Arcaro are appalled. "A real butcher on style," they say. Then they line up at the pari-mutuel windows to bet whatever horse has Ussery...
...three favorites. A forecast bet is similar to a quinel-la in the U.S., that is, picking the first two finishers in order. They did their job so well that only a single ticket was sold on the winning combination of Buckwheat and Handsome Lass, and the pari-mutuel payoff came to nearly...
...show) or on combinations called quinielas and correctas. Betting is not on a par with the ponies, but a well-placed $3 on a long-shot combination can bring back more than $1,200. And each year 1,400,000 fans pour $41 million into the frontons' pari-mutuel machines (the state's cut: $2,300,000). Lounging behind a protective wire screen, the fans sip daiquiris and cheer wildly for players whose names they cannot pronounce. "Come on, Choo Choo!" they yell to Churruca, an acrobatic Basque whose specialty is running straight up a side wall...