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...college and professional athletics. Handling as much as $250,000 worth of bets daily, Beckley, 58, mastered all the tricks of his ar-can'e trade: wangling information from locker rooms, computing odds in his head, occasionally bribing athletes. Once Beckley was discovered behind a scheme to fix college basketball games by bribing the referees. On another occasion, word flashed along his betting network that bookies need not worry about the outcome of a football game, because "the coach is betting...
...chat about "bulging adipose tissue" and "draining metabolic pools," it's reassuring to discover that you are only sipping carbonated water with grape flavoring. Afterward, resisting an urge to drink the finger bowl, you wait like an addict for a "people bag" with a tiny apple inside -a fix for those late-night withdrawal pangs...
...Department has just proposed a new "no-fault" auto-insurance plan. The idea has already aroused the interest of authorities in many other states, some of whom have tried but failed to institute less comprehensive systems. The plan would provide prompt payment by sweeping away the legal need to fix the blame in cases of bodily injury. Instead, an accident victim could collect medical costs and compensation for lost income for himself and his passengers from his own insurance company. By minimizing legal, investigative and administrative expenses and other costs, this system, say state insurance officials, could reduce auto insurance...
Karl Strauch, professor of Physics, will present an amendment to the Kagan Committee recommendation, proposing that the Faculty not fix a two-to-one ratio of men to women in the coed units...
...adults and eleven children. In another apartment, rented by a 79-year-old man and his wife, one radiator leaks and another has not worked, he said, "for a couple of years." In a third building, many of whose apartments tenants claim Harvard has sought to vacate rather than fix a broken boiler, one woman lived without heat for three months last fall. Tenants have complained about many other maintenance problems...