71.   Last year in Glendale, Councilman Rafi Manoukian ran a very successful absentee voter campaign to win in his first try for elected office.

72.   Major knee injuries scuttled his first try at the tour.

73.   Matthews is relishing every moment of this week and counseling his colleagues, even those upstart freshmen who stumbled to paydirt on their first try, to do likewise.

74.   McConnell returned to Louisville to win in his first try for political office as county judge of Jefferson County.

75.   McCown became a state district judge, winning his first try for a seat on the bench in Travis County.

76.   Meanwhile, films with copious graphic violence, nudity and sex seem to receive R ratings on the first try.

77.   Mueller fouled off his first bunt try and fouled off the second.

78.   New York consumers rarely get what they want on the first try anyway, so it seemed natural to try UrbanFetch.com, a new, competing digital delivery service.

79.   Nor did Arthur Ashe take Wimbledon by storm on his first try.

80.   Not bad for a first try after months of inactivity, the physical therapist gently tells him.