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...Hock to Ride. "Luck is about 80% of bull riding," Wegner says, and he is luckier than most: he has only a smashed vertebra and a broken foot to show for 14 years of competition. Raised on a wheat farm, he got his start breaking horses for local ranchers, quit school after the eleventh grade to wander the rodeo trail. "Lots of times I had to hock my watch to ride." he says. "Once I set out for a rodeo in Sulphur, Okla.. with five gallons of gas from Dad's pump. I didn't have...
With perverse sentimentality, posterity often remembers history's losers more fondly than the luckier or more competent heroes who beat them. But nothing like this Joan of Arc or Mary Queen of Scots effect has occurred in the case of Jefferson Davis. The public memory retains his name, but his deeds and character are dimmer than Hannibal's. Perhaps it is because Davis refused to let himself be forgiven, and went on proclaiming the Tightness of the South's cause until his death in 1889. Or it may be that the popular taste for gallant losers...
...Rica was luckier; she drew a twelve-hour curfew, thus can go out during the day. Lest they violate the law by talking to "political undesirables," the Hodgsons and several other couples will have to get special dispensations from Vorster to 'communicate with each other...
...number-it is about as easy as falling off a logarithm: first he dials 2125551212 (Information in Manhattan), then 2125712345 for Western Electric. If he is lucky he won't have to give an extension number for the man he wants to talk to; if he is luckier, he can still remember why he was calling in the first place...
...unique manure! Here, in America's Rhineland, our Angus provide us with tons of the stuff. When it is heaped in the barn, no one's nose is offended. When it is spread through the vineyards, the effluvium floats for miles. Perhaps the Murchisons will be luckier in financial maneuvers than in choosing metaphors...