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...complaints about the pitching staff have of course been a season-long beef, but are not altogether justified. Manager Don Zimmer and pitching coach Al Jackson have been a svcond guesser'b dream with a lot of their moves and Tiant has never resembled the consistent craftsman who won 20 or more games three of the last four years. But amidst all this, the staff's earned run average is still a respectable 4.19, considering Fenway Park, the designated hitter and recent expansion...
Each of the executives had one chance in ten of hitting the correct set of numbers; therefore an average guesser would have been right 10% of the time. As it turned out, the men who had managed to double their corporate profits in the past five years had an average score of 12.3%-substantially above the average. Meanwhile, the executives whose companies had reported relatively low profit gains or outright deficits scored only 8.3% on the guessing test...
...BERLIN WALL. "I always refused to be a second-guesser, but I do say this, that the staffs, military and diplomatic, had been going over and concocting every kind of counterplan to anything that they might see occurring that was damaging to us. I think this is one they may not have thought of. At least, I had never thought of it. Once it was started and you accepted, I think there wasn't much you could do about...
Whetstone. In Youngstown, Ohio, when an amusement-park age guesser overestimated Mary Bowie, 33, she whipped out a switchblade knife, spat threats at him, had to be disarmed by police...
...Davis Cup Captain Billy Talbert, flanked by veteran (30) Wimbledon Champion Vic Seixas and young (23) U.S. Champion Tony Trabert, also figured the final score would be 4-1-for the U.S. As it turned out, both predictions were wrong, but canny Harry Hopman proved to be the better guesser...