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17th & Last. The race was only eight laps old when Moss, brakes squealing, pulled into the pits. His throttle linkage was fouled; his gearbox was jammed tightly in fourth. By the time the pit crew, working furiously, had repaired the car, Moss's position was hopeless: he was 17th and last, more than three laps behind the leader, Hill. "What are you going to do?" asked a friend. Said Moss, with a wicked grin: "Have a bloody...
...time Palmer reached the 16th hole at Augusta last week, his cause finally seemed hopeless: he needed two birdies merely to stay alive for a three-way play-off with Player and Finsterwald. Then, at the 16th green, Palmer got his miracle: he pitched a 50-yd. chip into the cup for a birdie. Keyed up now, he stepped up to a null putt on the 17th -and banged it straight into the hole for his second straight birdie. On the 18th green, both Player and Palmer played cautiously for pars, solemnly shook hands and-the tension broken-began...
...been no disadvantage, of course, that his grandfather was a baron, or that Wilson himself attended Eton and Oxford. "He knows every picture in every manor in England," says one London dealer. One of his first jobs after leaving Oxford-"A terribly humble job," he says, "a hopeless kind of job"-was as a general rewrite man and assistant circulation manager for the art magazine Connoisseur. But after a year of drudgery, Wilson felt he had learned enough about antiques to brazen it out at Sotheby's. For his first auction in 1938, he practiced all weekend by "auctioning...
...Internal Revenue Service, with 58,584 eagle-eyed workers in 1,224 offices, is by far the biggest, most efficient and most successful revenue collection agency in human history. But the U.S. taxpayer is quite a fellow himself. In his heart burns a variety of emotions: deep resentment, hopeless resignation, awful foreboding, dark temptations. His conscience, if it does not always triumph still does pretty well. Unlike the Italian, the Latin American or the Frenchman, for whom tax evasion is a way of life, the U.S. taxpayer turns over anywhere from 20% to 91% of his income, as requested, with...
Arguing against the amendment, Southern Democrats knew from the start that their cause was hopeless, yet they were determined to have their say for the benefit of the folks back home. Confident that he had the votes to pass the measure, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield was willing to let the Southern Democrats talk on, without applying any pressures. His sternest moves were to schedule the first Saturday session of the year and to start all sessions at 9 a.m. instead of noon...