Word: luck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Running, Jumping, Standing Still," an improvised short with Peter Sellers, provided Morgan's inspiration, and from there it was only a matter of money, time, patience, skill, and luck. The seven loosely strung together episodes which make up "Three Giant Steps" were conceived and ironed out in countless dinner table conferences in Eliot House, bginning last November, after Morgan had seen the Sellers film at the Brattle...
...Better Luck? On landing in the U.S., Sukarno headed first for the Paramount lot and the high life of Hollywood. On the itinerary for this week is Washington, where President Kennedy plans personally to meet Sukarno when he lands at the National Airport, for Sukarno is both vain and touchy. "It is wise of President Kennedy to invite one of Asia's leaders at the start of his term," noted Sukarno grandly...
Predictably, Sukarno will ask for more aid-he always does-since foreign money is the only thing that keeps his staggering economy going. The U.S. has already, in the eleven years of Indonesia's existence, given it $660 million in economic assistance, and Sukarno may have better luck with Kennedy than he did with President Eisenhower, who frankly did not like him. Apparently, the Kennedy Administration figures that unless Sukarno can be steadied down, the world's sixth most populous nation may break into warring fragments, or fall into the waiting arms of the Communists...
...Auerhahn shoot. Only the male of the species may be hunted, and the bird is so cagey that it can be approached only during mating season-when its sharp sense of hearing is momentarily dulled by the ecstasy of its own love call. Bad weather or bad luck can plague the most careful stalker. Heavy winds, for example often drown out the telltale mating call; morning alpine mists make successful camouflage. And when the Auerhahn is not clucking rapturously, it is listening intently for female response; the slightest sigh from its pursuer can frighten the bird into flight...
June graduates who support the protest will be out of luck; the University has said that this year's diplomas have already been printed--in English...