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Laker thus becomes the first victim of the airfare wars that he originally started. Fierce price competition is also threatening the solvency of American carriers such as Pan Am and Braniff. Last summer Laker admitted that the airline business had become "a hell of a poker game." Sir Freddie, and his planes, will be missed by thousands of budget travelers on both sides of the Atlantic...
...Middle East last week than U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig tipped his hand. During his first stopover, in Geneva, he told the world that he would tell Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko of the "outrage" felt by the U.S. over the Soviet-backed crackdown in Poland. The poker-faced Gromyko, who in his time has dealt with eight American Secretaries of State, responded that he had "absolutely no intention" of discussing Poland. The meeting promised, as Haig then observed, to be a "very short...
...match "irrelevant" to the long-term stature of his school, the aspiring psychology major expressed some concern that his opponent would gain a mental edge because of his special game plan. Wilds is ranked 34th in the country in chess but said he has won for more money playing poker...
...fact that the sun always seemed to come out when F.D.R. was scheduled to speak. Roosevelt was superstitious and avoided 13 at dinner, but he knew perfectly well that "luck" is mainly a matter of shrewd ness and timing. Characteristically, he was an expert at seven-card stud poker, with one-eyed face cards wild...
Everywhere, Warner casts her spell, literally. Her mother's ritual for boiling an egg becomes just that. In a piece on folk recipes-a pint of warm beer stirred with a hot poker will cure backache, a slab of raw beef will rub away a wart-the reporter edges deliciously close to magic herself. Even the inventory of the purple velvet handbag of Mme. Houdin, ten-year-old Sylvia's French tutor, becomes a litany of talismans to ward off disaster: smelling salts, two thimbles, a photograph of M. Houdin, the number of madame's life-insurance...