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...Lawrin, a 9-1 shot that Trainer Ben Jones thought almost too unsound to train. His second Derby victory was on Whirlaway in 1941, a chestnut colt that, for all its speed, had trouble taking a turn. Arcaro solved the problem by giving Whirlaway a long rein. And Trainer Jones helped out on Derby Day by cutting away the left cup of the colt's blinkers. The plan was to give Whirlaway full vision in his left eye so that he would naturally tend to follow the rail on turns. Recalls Eddie: "I thought to myself that this...
...chairman and president a hustling and autocratic executive named John L. McGara. McGara, 51, who had made his name by merging a complex of plate steel and boiler equipment suppliers into Buffalo's Adsco Industries, abolished Yuba's monthly board meeting to give himself freer rein. He ruthlessly dismissed old Yuba hands who questioned his policies. The directors didn't mind, because McGara promised that with his kind of leadership Yuba would do "in two or three years what it took other companies ten or 20 years...
...slipped). Hesburgh also cut eleven pages of student rules to two quick pages that, among other restrictions, prohibit students from having cars, from cheating or from "overdrinking." If it took Hesburgh nine years to make those changes, his hesitation is understandable. On the record, the old tight rein produced remarkably stable men. Not long ago, a visiting Harvard psychiatrist was astounded to find not a single undergraduate suicide in Notre Dame's history...
...their attention distracted or their view obstructed by counsel. But in cross-examination of a hostile witness, the lawyer will move close to the witness stand so the jury can closely watch every reaction in the duel between two adversaries. During crossexamination, the witness should be held under tight rein and not be given an opportunity to tender more than yes or no answers. It is the sign of a bad cross-examiner, says Nizer, if he must ask "Why?" or "Will you explain that...
...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...