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...Good Guesser. While the police stood by passively and the army held back, they took control of the city. Toward evening a car fetched Perón from the hospital. Finally, Pern and President Farrell appeared together on the palace balcony. The crowd roared. An afternoon newspaper had printed pictures of the demonstrators sneeringly titled: "The shirtless ones [descamisados] who roam our streets." Now Perón caught up the sneer as a weapon, shouted that he wanted to clasp all such descamisados to his bosom. Ever since, Peronistas have celebrated the day of the descamisados' loyalty...
...football is played for those who sit and shiver and shout and stomp in the Stadium of a Saturday afternoon, and the world of the second-guesser and the Monday-morning quarterback and the prognosticator means nothing between 1:30 and 4 p.m. this afternoon...
With that information, any good guesser who had read a couple of Robert Wilder's previous bestsellers (Flamingo Road, Written on the Wind, Bright Feather) might almost twig to the whole story...
...conclusiveness of the experiments was strongly contested by Von Mises, who claimed that if, in the card-reading experiments, cards and guesser happen to be in "mathematical" resonance," the subject will seem to be far outdoing chance in his correct calls. During a short period of experiments, he insisted, this "freak occurrence" has often appeared and has been mistakenly believed to be important...
...about our grandstand quarterback's second suggestion, that Harvard should throw fewer passes. This was a magnificent example of the second guess in action, coming, as it did, hard on the heels of the Cornell touchdown scored by intercepting a Noonan pass to the right flank. What the second-guesser forgot was the Harvard Managed to gain twice as much yardage through the air as on the ground (187 to 91). In fact, lack of defense against short passes was just about the only weakness Cornell showed. It was this that led Valpey to make short passes...