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...much or as little as Perry is, he personally never claimed to be anything more. This may have been his dignity and surely was his grace. "The Perry thing, as much as anything," Ditka says, "made people think, 'Hey, these guys are having fun.' It was kind of flukish, the way it happened." If the Perry thing gave a sort of melancholy life to that smoky old carnival bark, "Monsters of the Midway," the Perry person made the mood of the sideshow bright. "Everything has been a thrill to me," whistles this cheerful man through his ventilated smile. "The whole...
...season with a lot of fairly serious injuries, bad flukish ankle turns, stress fractures and stuff like that," said Schotte, who also captained the cross-country team...
...season with a lot of fairly serious injuries, bad flukish ankle turns, stress fractures and stuff like that," said Schotte, who also captained the cross country team...
Cornell's first goal, coming less than five minutes into the second half, could not have been more flukish. Harvard had a corner--a play that has produced four of the team's seven goals this season--so it could be inferred that the Crimson was threatening to score...
...fears that the jury's "flukish decision" will encourage other Robin Hood robberies. As for Masover, he was awarded a prestigious state regent's scholarship and plans this week to enter the University of California at Berkeley, where he will study physics and try to forget his close encounter with...