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...best poker player at Harvard may be a woman. Kitten, a senior at Radcliffe, plays in Harvard's biggest game, where people have been known to bet $10 just from boredom. Betting on the last round can go considerably higher...
...from the upper East side, a debutante, the whole bit, went to prep school and when I was 17 my father dragged me away from singing in a place in the Village," said Kitten. Her father taught her how to play poker when she was 12, but it was not until last year that she was able to put the lessons to use. "I started off playing nickel-dime," she says, and now betting $20 or $30 does not bother...
...pinpoint placements, drop shots and lobs and-when an opening came-a two-fisted backhand drive down the line. In the final game, when the tenacious Billie Jean fought back from match point five times, one excited fan yelled: "Get it over with!" Chris, who usually plays with a poker-faced poise that one of her opponents describes as "almost eerie," shouted back: "I'm trying." Then, trying harder, she scored on a solid forehand...
...relevant that when George Higgins was in Boston College, he wrote a term paper on "Poker Terms of the South Shore." He has always been listening, it seems, but for such a talented listener he is a very ebullient young...
Nixon responded to this by labeling Muskie's statement "a libel on the American conscience." Then with the pot-luck inspiration of the truly smart poker player, Citizen Richard re-inforced his statement by adding that he even had a specific black in mind who he felt would be an asset to any national ticket: Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts...