Word: luck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public at large, Britons have long been notably calm and patient about strikes. Yet there was some grumbling fortnight ago. when the railwaymen brought trains throughout the country to a dead halt and millions of commuters skipped work rather than try their luck on the highways. Slowly but surely, disenchantment with the unions is growing. In a 1954 Gallup poll, only 12% of the British public considered unions bad-by 1959 the figure had nearly doubled to 23%; Says ..George Woodcock, one of the leaders of the Trades Union Congress: "We have lost the general sympathy that the public usually...
Cornell gathers its courage and football team together today for a journey to Annapolis to play Navy. The Big Red just made it past a stumbling Harvard team last week, but its chances of similar luck today are almost...
Once the men in the space program had done their best and then depended on luck; now they are prepared to take success for granted, rather than being surprised or relieved by it. On the long road ahead to the moon, there may yet be setbacks and disasters, but last week's shot guaranteed that they will be accepted as the price of enterprise, not as discouraging proof of backwardness...
Their paths next crossed in 1960. when Marianne, by then a general-assignments reporter in Hearst's Washington bureau, showed up on Kennedy's campaign. Sheer luck had put her there-everybody else in the bureau was sick at the time-but Kennedy remembered her. After the election, he had a talk with Hearst National Editor Frank Conniff. "Are you going to send Marianne to the White House?" asked Kennedy. Conniff, who had not intended to send anyone, lost no time in complying...
...drive for new business, Ganger signed up Royal Crown Cola, has recently won Wildroot, Knox Gelatine and Plaid Stamps. With billings up to $87 million last year, Ganger beams: "We've nearly doubled our business in the past five years-and you don't do that by luck...