Word: lefthandedness
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* Rules permit saddle bronc riders to keep one hand on the rein; most use the left, claim it gives them better balance and control. Conditioned to lefthanded riders, some horses depart from their normal bucking pattern, behave unpredictably when ridden by a righthander.
Shor got his revenge one night when he introduced Gleason to "Mr. Joe Shu-man," explaining that Shuman was a dress manufacturer from Philadelphia and an old Shor pal. Shuman confided that in his spare time he sometimes liked to shoot a little pool. Gleason prides himself on shooting an...
Chunky Fan Dale Blasingame, 49, a moderately successful grape broker, glanced around the stands at Fresno, Calif.'s Roosevelt High one day last spring and grinned happily. Scattered among the gum-chewing, chattering teenagers were 30 older but equally familiar figures. To Dale Blasingame, those men meant money in...
The Lenin Peace Prizes, awarded on May Day eve, honored a couple of unlikely apostles of tranquillity last week: Cuba's Premier Fidel Castro and Guinea's President Sékou Touré. To Touré the prize seemed something of a lefthanded compliment. "We are not Communists...
MICKEY MANTLE was off to his best spring since 1956-when he led the American League in batting, home runs and RBIs. He ran up a 16-game hitting streak, was batting a lusty .329, and his nine home runs and 24 RBIs topped both leagues. He had personally accounted...