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Judith Sch wager Hoffman Estates...
...time is the Depression, and these bouts are appropriately called pickup matches. They are not staged in rings but on barges, in factories or ware houses, anywhere working men are likely to wager a few bucks of their meager paychecks. Hard Times is a first feature by Walter Hill, who used to be solely a screenwriter (the intriguing Hickey and Boggs, Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway). Director Hill's debut is controlled and fairly confident; working at his peak, he gives a strong taste of the heel-end poverty of the times. Hill is also responsible for Charles...
Jerome Wiener, president of MIT, was also unfamiliar with the wager. He was, however, "certain" that the Red Sox would win the World Series, he said...
Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said yesterday he was not aware of the wager or the politics behind Bok's decision but that he thought that the Reds would win the World Series...
...Boston Globe recently reported similar bets between the governors of Massachusetts and Ohio and the mayors of Boston and Cincinnati. Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis bet 20 pounds of Massachusetts cod against Ohio Gov. James Rhode's wager of a bushel of corn, ten pounds of Lake Erie perch, and ten pounds of Ohio River catfish...