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Roaring down the road on a sleek new bike as the engine growls with each gear shift gives some couples another shot at being teenagers in love. They're rebels with 401(k) plans. Most women still ride on the back--"two-up" in motorcycle parlance--which provides the maximum physical closeness and a unique sense of partnership. This is "being one--together," according to Bill Davis, 53, a sales rep in Carlsbad, Calif. "If I am leaning left to turn left and my partner turns right, it can be perilous," he says. "It's like leading when you dance...
...many seats. The New Democrats will surely join the Liberals if the leading party tries to keep its campaign promises. Chretien's plans include a public works job initiative similar to Franklin Roosevelt's Civil Conservation Corps and a renegotiation of NAFTA. If he succeeds, he'll be two-up on President Clinton...
...resentment at being forever considered an outsider?at Geelong Grammar, at Oxford, in Sydney, on Fleet Street. Up to a point, Murdoch agrees: "New York welcomes newcomers. In England, if one is an outsider there is suspicion." Still other Murdoch-watchers explain that the inveterate gambler is merely playing two-up with bigger stakes these days. Too bloody right, admits Murdoch: "Publishing is a life of constant calculated risks. That's also what gambling...
Murdoch had never played two-up with a newspaper, and he was eager to try for a run. So in 1956 he bought a Sunday paper in Perth for $400,000, then four years later spent $4 million for the Sydney Daily Mirror, a racy tabloid weakened by incessant circulation wars. His Sydney invasion literally touched off new fighting. When Murdoch outbid a rival publisher for an Anglican Church printing plant, the rival tried to occupy the building. Murdoch allies rounded up a gang of hammer-wielding thugs and recaptured the plant after a bloody fight. At the same time...
...carried Jack Purdy to the 19th hole before defeating him, one-up. Both Perrone and Purdy made the 19th green in three; but Purdy landed a little farther from the pin and three-putted the hole. Perrone only needed two putts. Purdy did get past his Williams opponent, winning two...