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...Harvard and Yale, and the Librarian of Congress since 1975, knows all those recondite facts and more. Many more. He also knows how to put them to good use. Having gambled in the 1950s that he could retell the whole American experience in his three-volume The Americans, a wager that eventually won him a Pulitzer Prize, Boorstin is now attempting an even riskier gamble: that he can find a new way to retell the whole history of the world in 745 pages...
...magic chemistry of courage, anger and desperation that makes men wager their lives for an ideal fired Hungary into revolution last week. Unarmed, unorganized, unaided from outside, the Hungarian people rolled back the tide of Communism. They overthrew a government. They took on the Soviet army. In six days the Hungarian people made history-six days that shook the world. After the week's events, the Communist empire could never be the same. The rest of the world could only look on with a catch in its heart, while thousands who must have known they could expect no outside...
...blame for the development of awkward situations we may look forward to some improvement. But there are certain things which my experience in my current role has persuaded me are likely to be pervasive features of the landscape. It will doubtless sound terribly corny and perhaps cynical to wager that human and perhaps cynical to wager that human nature will remain unchanged. But I believe it is realistic to predict that instructors and students will continue to find each other personally attractive and that on occasion some will act on their feelings even though they may be aware that...
...round-trip ticket is free. Thirty-five minutes later, the aircraft touches down near Atlantic City, and after a ten-minute ride into town, the jetting junketers are at the crap and blackjack tables of Resorts International's huge Casino Hotel. Resorts expects each of them to wager at least $1,000 and is privately counting on earning an average of about 18? on each dollar bet before they are whisked back home at the end of the evening...
That was probably quite a break for Cintra to make, going off to Philadelphia like she did. But I wager she was happy to be somewhere else besides the Lawrenceville-Princeton area for a change. The article only mentions one time until now that she made it out of New Jersey--to get presented at the Debutante Cotillion and Christmas Ball in New York in 1977. Why, she even went to college in Princeton, in the university they've got there, and so she must have seen quite a bit more of her folks than most young people in college...