Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Others stick to "scientific" betting, putting money on the longest odds. There are enough of these number-watchers to keep the boards jumping as much as from 70 to 1 to 9 to 5 on the same dog in five minutes. An Italian longshoreman plays for big stakes: he puts $2 on the #1 dog in the first race. If he wins, he puts $2 on the #2 dog in the next race. If he wins again, he returns to the #1 dog with $2 in the third race, and so on. But any time he loses, he doubles...
Giving a hound the once-over makes you think of both Jim Ryun's slender power and Mohammad Ali's dense bulk. Ribs stick out all over, but so do muscles. Twiggy bigjointed legs. Deer eyes, Teacup muzzles sheathed in leather. Deadleaf ears...
...laggard major parties. That is the only lead the party is likely to enjoy. Having amassed a grand total of 27,000 votes in 1964, the Prohibitionists-whose symbol is a camel, because, as one member explained, "it can go a long way without liquid"-decided to stick with a loser. Renominated for President was E. Har old Munn Sr., 63, an associate dean at Michigan's Hillsdale College. Named as his running mate was Topeka Evangelist Rolland E. Fisher...
...time that a good number of them could prolong their lives by changing their eating habits-but proving the proposition was another matter. One reason: nobody knew whether it was possible to persuade a sufficient number of men leading normal lives to go on a low-fat diet and stick to it. At last week's A.M.A. meeting, the Executive Committee on Diet and Heart Disease reported after a long-term pilot project involving 2,000 men aged 45 to 54 that it was indeed possible. The next step, said the committee, is to seek more conclusive proof...
...cream specialties to build up the business. One new one this summer is the Cannonball, a plastic cone with a gum-ball at the bottom of the ice cream. Another is called the Madcap and may revolutionize the Popsicle market. Madcaps are inverted cones of ice cream on a stick, can be spewed out in carloads by the Flex-E-Fills, and will, Maryland Cup hopes, dominate the "sticks" that are ice cream's biggest single specialty seller...