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...walking up to men and women who did not know he existed, shaking their hands and drawling, "I'm Jimmy Carter, and I'm going to be your next President." The notion seemed preposterous, and most political professionals were dead sure he did not have a chance???but none of the voters laughed in his face. He was such an engaging man?a trifle shy, for all his gall, and there was that sunburst of a smile that people would always remember. Right from the start, he was perceived as being a rather different kind of politician compared with...
...pure chance???or, some say, typically astute Ludwig intelligence?the Jari property also turned out to contain a rich deposit of kaolin, a clay used in making coatings for high-gloss paper. Huge earth-moving machines are now gouging the white stuff out of an enormous open pit mine and feeding it into a $23 million processing plant that started up two months...
Fallen Wall. But Bacon's breakthrough happened only by chance???or at least by the kind of chance that only total preparation makes into a real breakthrough. The 1952 election installed a new, reform-minded mayor, Democrat Joseph Clark, and a new city charter, in which the planning commission was given real authority. A few months later came an announcement from the Pennsylvania Railroad that it had at last decided to tear down the inner city's historic eyesore: the old Broad Street station and the mile-long stretch of elevated tracks behind it that had been known...
California's Bill Pereira is dealing with no monuments, no national sentiments, no cities-in-vacuum. He has had the luck?helped by hard work and great skill?to fall into something truly unique: the chance???and the challenge ?to build a huge new community alongside the urban disorder of the boom town of the boom state in the boom country of the world. It is a golden opportunity, and no one is more aware of the fact than Pereira himself...
...Racing Form, usually has a queasy feeling that there are things going on that he wots not of, but that the wise boys wot right well. He is peculiarly sensitive to the great American dread of being played for a sucker. But he still thinks he has a chance???if he can dope some angles...