Word: luck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When a company has one job opening, says Lloyd Luoma, a Lockheed employment supervisor, "a little advertising and luck will fill it. But with a hundred openings at once, you have a problem." Many U.S. employers have such headaches, and are racking their corporate brains to find ways of meeting the increasingly severe shortage of skilled workers...
...Franz von Papen, 89, German diplomat and politician who loomed large in Hitler's rise to power; of a virus infection; in Oberasbach, West Germany. Germans called him "the sly old fox of politics." He was actually a chronic blunderer who had the aristocratic connections and great good luck to survive his gaffes. As a World War I military attaché in the U.S., his fumbling attempts at espionage and sabotage led to his expulsion. As a postwar politician, his machinations finally gained him the chancellorship in 1932, whereupon he brought Hitler into the government-and swiftly found himself...
...luck of the draw, Penn got the up-front position in the staggered start. At the gun, the Quakers came off at 39 strokes per minute to take a two seat lead in the first five pulls. The much higher-stroking Crimson got away at about...
Incidentally, I learn that little groups of brave souls, collected for a National College Theatre Festival, or some such, will be trying just that, and I break hoary stage custom to wish them just "good luck...
Freelance Photographer Tim Page, 24, figured it was time to get out of Viet Nam. He was sure that he was pushing his luck. His body was a mass of scars from combat wounds. He was hit in the hip while with the Marines near Chu Lai in 1965. During the Buddhist revolt in Danang in the spring of 1966, a 40-mm. grenade exploded near by, wounding him in eight places. He was riding a Coast Guard cutter a few months later when the ship was strafed by mistake by U.S. planes and he was riddled with shrapnel. Afterward...