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Having full confidence in my House team, I was ready to wager some money. After all, the Bunnies would have Joe Roda at quarterback, a backfield perhaps second only to the JV's and a bunch of my friends and former roommates, who if drunk enough, would play anyone, including the Minnesota Vikings. I had no doubt in my mind that they would give anybody a good game. Bill refused to bet, but as he was walking away, he yelled a warning. "Just be at the game a couple of weeks from now, and we will see who the best...
From the beginning, the helpful Kee has rather obviously been the key to Greg's survival. Does Flynn intend to reassert sadly that man seems destined to slay his saviors? Or is he bypassing salvation theology altogether and desperately endorsing an existential wager? "Do you ever think," Greg scrawls at the last, "that this life is madness, that this world is a prison, and that if you gave up hope you would be free...
...first time in 25 years I'm seeing the world without an alcoholic haze," Richard Burton boasted last week. And all because wife Elizabeth bet her convivial Welshman that he couldn't abstain for three months. A trimmer Burton has not only won the wager (a kiss or something; he forgets), but has stretched his dry period to nearly six months. Lest his public misunderstand his sober ways, Burton begged his interviewer: "Please don't make me out to be against alcohol. I'll get all sorts of letters from the temperance people, and I certainly...
...countrymen shadowboxing is prototypically Basque, not only in physique but also in the delight he takes in exercising his remarkable strength. And in betting on it.* Stone lifting is a passion among the Basques, and as a youth Urtain never missed a chance to accept a wager. At the age of ten he won 25 pesetas for moving a 175-lb. stone from a pathway; at 14 he acquired a chicken by hefting a 300-lb. stone five straight times. He turned pro at 21 but soon ran out of competition, even though he gave his opponents ever larger handicaps...
...must make the wager pay off is Najeeb Elias Halaby, 54, Pan Am's new president and chief executive. Halaby has not yet had time to demonstrate that he can lead a losing airline back to solid profits, but he has sound credentials for that difficult job. Before he landed at Pan Am, he was in turn an outstanding pilot, a practicing lawyer, a corporate executive and an imaginative, activist chief of the Federal Aviation Administration. He also showed himself to be accomplished in personal public relations, seldom failing to remind audiences that he was President Kennedy's principal adviser...