Word: luck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until last week, Brazil had been able to get through ten months of acute political crisis-ever since Jânio Quadros deserted the presidency-without much actual disorder. But then her luck ran out. Last week the country suffered its bloodiest outburst of violence in 27 years...
Several years ago, my mother picked up for $20 an old player piano [TIME, June 22] that seemed beyond repair. She gave it to my father for his birthday and wished him luck. With the help of cut-up babies' rubber pants for the bellows, new felt for the key backings, and an old vacuum cleaner for self-pumping, we now have a fully automated intune player piano...
...prefer cappuccina to scotch, you're in luck; a number of coffee houses have opened up in the last several years. Charles St., with three houses within as many blocks, bids fair to compete with Greenwich Village's Macdougal St. There is folk singing at Golden Vanity, in Kenmore Square, and at The Loft, on Charles St. Probably some of the others will have entertainers during the summer, but you should check before you go. Some of the others are the Turk's Head, Cafe Yana, The Place, and the Gallery. Charles St. is no North Beach but the prices...
...little hard to see why everyone in the novel-and apparently the author too -considers Bebo a fine young man who is down on his luck rather than a nasty young fanatic who has blown the skull off a completely innocent...
Marines & Guerrillas. Last week's rebellion, the second in a month, broke out in the marine corps. Given a little more luck, Betancourt might have put it down with a minimum of fighting. Striking before dawn, three malcontent pro-Castro officers imprisoned the naval base's commanders and started broadcasting a call to rebellion. Their appeal was ignored. Within hours loyal navy units had won back the base and arrested the rebel officers and their followers. But the rebels were in control just long enough to dispatch a force of 700 marines to occupy the city of Puerto...