Word: luck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Between missions, Carmelo, 35, always armed, shifted in a shadowy world of refugee camps, empty attics, slivovitz bars and rented rooms (which he liked to share with grateful refugee girls). No one on either side of the border ever betrayed him. But last week Carmelo's luck ran out. In the Carso hills above Trieste, where he knew every twisted pathway, sheltered wood and hidden gully, Carmelo was leading a couple and their two children to safety when Tito's red-starred "people's guards" opened fire with submachine guns. Carmelo returned the fire with his Beretta...
...just fighting a delaying action," a philosophical friend in Georgia once observed. "I know," said Dick Russell. "But I am trying to delay it-ten years if I'm not lucky, 200 years if I am." But Dick Russell does not really trust to luck in fighting his Senate campaigns. He believes, as he told his Southern colleagues at their secret caucus, in fighting a "case on the merits." And over the long pull, Dick Russell does not have much of a case...
...Harvard XI lost to Haverford in cricket Saturday, 75 runs to 54. The Crimson was plagued by bad luck, as opening batsmen Barry Eastment and Monsoor Wharton-Ali went for six and nine runs, respectively...
...feed the public hunger for new pop names, U.S. record makers flail the musical undergrowth like beaters at a princely pheasant shoot, while fledgling pop singers break cover from behind lunch stands and dime-store counters, flutter out of laundry trucks and prizefighting rings. With luck, adroit promotion and an occasional touch of talent, some of the captured quarry end up making the kind of noises that set cash registers ajingle...
...Slot Luck. In Uniontown, Pa., Mrs. Ann Pratt testified during an inquiry into "for amusement only" pinball machines, that she had once spent five hours and $110 trying to get back $25, was still determined to keep playing until she won back the $3,000 she had lost over the past four years...