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Suddenly the dragster sags, except for the propped-up side of the wing; the wrinkled strut has heated up and stretched out. Kalitta jams another two- by-eight between the struts and throws his weight against this lever to fine tune the straightening. After considerable additional work, he steps back to examine the results, which aren't wholly successful. But then, a normal start tends to lift the opposite side of the car anyway. Maybe a crooked wing will counteract that. He raises his hands in a papal blessing and grins. "The torque'll lean it just right," he declares...
Later that afternoon, while he is waiting for his room at the Flamingo Hilton, Donald Persson deposits three quarters into a slot machine, one of the largest bets of his life, and pulls the lever. The wheels fall into place, and the coins start firing rat-a-tat into the metal change bucket. Persson takes a seat, drops three more quarters and contemplates just what he has been missing for the past 57 years. By the time his wife Myrna disconnects him from the machine and persuades him to visit a cashier, he is up $153. He hardly needs...
...spinning behind the windows of their slot machines. Linda's hands work absently at the change bucket. She feeds the machine, lifts herself off the stool a bit to grasp the handle, and settles back with her weight on it, like a factory worker heaving open a start-up lever of a large turbine engine. Then, with the lights reflecting in her eyeglasses, she bounces up and down, patting the side of the machine and saying, "Come on! Big one, big one! Here it comes!" Her friend Janet Salo, by contrast, tends to snap the lever down...
IMAGINE A John Harvard facsimile on wheels which would stand up at the flick of a lever and hand out fancy invitations to Harvard Square shoppers...
...followed small children as they hopped over stoops and banged on garbage cans. He zeroed in on the eyeballs of men coming home from work. He knew someone across the street had seen him on the roof with the rifle, probably saw him now, aiming it, checking the lever action, and adjusting the crosshairs on the scope. He didn't care. Apparently they didn't either...