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...Harvard in the contest. Dartmouth had dropped its first three games for the first time since 1959 while Harvard was among the nation's leaders in total defense and quarterback Jimmy Stoeckel and split receiver Pat McInally had been keying a potent Crimson offense. So Greg placed a small wager, $200 double or nothing from a previous bet with a "friend" in Philadelphia on a sure thing-a Crimson victory...
With those words in his televised address to the nation last week, Richard Nixon declared the greatest bet of his lifetime of high-risk politics, making a desperate and dangerous wager on his place in history. The stakes were nothing less than his survival in office and his ultimate image as a man and as a President. In still another effort "to put Watergate behind us," to show once and for all "that the President has nothing to hide in this matter," he announced that he was making public 1,254 pages of transcribed tape recordings of his personal conversations...
Rather declined to say whether he thought Nixon should be impeached, but did say that if he were "betting the rent money," he would wager that the president stays...
...turnstiles spin merrily year-round at one or more of the state's 17 tracks (there are only 23 others in the rest of the U.S.). Despite the dearth of glamour and the shortage of champions that stand out from the pack, huge numbers of gamblers want to wager on the greyhounds that futilely chase an ersatz rabbit around an oval of either five-sixteenths or three-eighths of a mile...