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...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...
...Princely Payoff. Gessner had worked for nearly seven years as a nuclear weapons technician, had ample opportunity to gather information of interest to Moscow. At 17, he enlisted in the Air Force, was assigned to guided missile work at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. Discharged four years later, he labored as a civilian on Titan and Atlas missile projects, in 1960 joined the Army and worked on nuclear weapons at Jackson, S.C., and Sandia, N. Mex. Ten months after joining the Army, Gessner deserted and crossed over to Mexico...
...radios each year, one Japanese model that retails legally for $46 costs $7.50 at your friendly smuggler's outlet. Guatemalans smuggle almost anything made in Mexico; Costa Rica's national lottery is pretty unexciting, so Costa Ricans slip in big wads of tickets from Panama, where the payoff is bigger. In Chile Camay soap rates high, since local brands are sudsless-and expensive. Scotch whisky is a durable favorite everywhere. (Enterprising Argentine distillers now produce under license a domestic brand labeled "Old Smuggler," but it cannot quite pass the hangover test, and customers still prefer the imported stuff...
...Payoff. As the returns poured in that night, it was immediately apparent that the massive Southern California drive had paid off. Rockefeller forces had hoped to hold Barry to a 100,000 vote margin in Southern California, then more than make up the deficit in the northern part of the state, especially the San Francisco Bay area. But Goldwater took Los Angeles County by 158,000 votes, adjacent Orange County by 49,000 and San Diego County...
...investigation netted one suspect, a 54-year-old janitor who surrendered to police and was charged with killing another prostitute, red-haired Irene Lockwood, whose nude body was found in the Thames last month. The murder scare had another unexpected payoff for police. Fearful that a Jack the Stripper was still at large, whores stayed home by the thousands, cleaning London's sidewalks more effectively than all the vice squads in Britain...