Word: slims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very bad deal indeed, at least in the opinion of Thomas Austin Preston Jr., a.k.a. Amorillo Slim, 46. Preston, who parlayed his 1972 victory in Las Vegas' World Series of Poker into a tour of TV talk shows and a movie role in California Split, was arrested by his home-town police in Amarillo, Texas, last week. Charged with felonious bookmaking on football games, the lanky, slow-talking gambler drew a short stay in Potter County jail before his release on $25,000 bail. "I was at the wrong place at the wrong time," complained Preston later, adding that...
There's no denying the fact, however, that Wixted is the main man for Penn, and that without him, the Quakers' chances of winning today are quite slim. Stranger things have happened, though Last night, for example, there was this guy masquerading as Dave Schulz, the Philadelphia Flyers' bad boy, who kept hitting everyone over the head with a real hockey stick while yelling "April Fools...
...sophomore at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, says that although he is "hoping for a good showing," he doesn't expect to garner more than 800 of a possible 40,000 votes. A somewhat bitter A. George Catavolo, an Independent, said his chances in the election are slim, even though he feels he is "perfectly qualified" for a position on the school committee. "When you're an idealist, a practical family man who wants to improve the system, nobody wants you," he said. "In an election of this kind, votes are bought and sold; if you have jobs...
...removal have repeatedly filled the council's galleries with protesters. On this key issue, the business and middle classes part ways, with developers maintaining that rent control retards construction and the residents complaining that the landlords are bleeding them dry. The present line-up in the council is a slim majority in favor of rent control, with the Independents now working on a new plan, "vacancy decontrol," which in theory would only affect transient residents...
...fans from the scuzzy Jersey shore. Then, two record albums of wired brilliance (Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. and The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle) enlarged his audience to a cult. The albums had ecstatic reviews - there was continuing and talk of "a new Dylan" growing - but slim sales. Springsteen spent nearly two years working on his third album, Born to Run, and Columbia Records has already invested $150,000 in ensuring that this time around, everyone gets the message...