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...only do the Tigers take a lot of three-point shots--39 percent of their attempts come from trifecta land--but they also make a lot of the them. Princeton is currently ranked third in the country in three-point shooting, connecting on 48 percent (135-of-279) of its triples...
...ultimately equal that fig ure. ABC, gambling that it will make up in ratings what it misses in ad dollars, schedules the film for sweeps week, when the three networks all go for broke in the ratings. The timing is perfect: Nov. 20 is not only a Nielsen trifecta, it is less than two weeks before the Pershing Us are due to be installed in West Germany. More controversy, more publicity. Is the timing a reflection of political intent as well as business expediency? The network firmly denies it. The National Review editorializes that ABC is making "a $7 million...
...that Errico was in Los Angeles during the period when he was supposedly fixing races in New York. But federal officials attempted to prove that a number of bettors were seen meeting with Errico and subsequently cashing huge payoffs (as much as $129,000 by a single bettor) on trifecta wagers. According to Amy, he and the other jockeys were paid up to $7,500 a race by Errico to assure that their horses finished out of the money...
...same Pucci. In their January issues, the Smithsonian, Scientific American and National Geographic all appeared with cover photos showing a volcano erupting on Jupiter's moon lo. Though having look-alike covers is an editor's nightmare that all too frequently comes true, the science magazines' trifecta was an interplanetary long shot. The picture is a computer composite of images radioed to earth by Voyager 1 last March. The three monthlies (total circ. 12,750,000) all sent their covers to press many weeks ago, and the editors say they are not in a lava over...
...slick conditions made life difficult for the javelin throwers, but Dave Kinney, freshman surprise Jim Mullen and Mike Stewart provided the thinclads with an impressive trifecta...