Word: luck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vientiane, the only four helicopters on duty were pocked with bullet holes, and their U.S. civilian pilots, flying under contract to the Laotian government, were badly overworked. Said one, who had spent weeks darting through thunderstorms and skirting mountain peaks and groundfire from the Communist Pathet Lao: "My luck's beginning to run a little thin." Added another: "Those hills are ringed with Russian antiaircraft guns. We have to fly in low, just skimming the hilltops...
Sixteen returning lettermen, a great of work, and a little bit of luck may the Crimson a great lacrosse team spring...
Crisis at Juilliard. Leontyne's greatest stroke of luck at Juilliard was being turned over for vocal coaching to Florence Page Kimball, herself a former concert singer. The Leontyne who came to her was a "gawky, very simple child-just another student to me." Miss Kimball realized that Leontyne was more than another student after hearing her sing Mistress Ford in a Juilliard production of Falstaff. Officially. Miss Kimball was her voice teacher; unofficially, she counseled her on how to dress and carry herself, how to handle the social perplexities of a Northern city. Says a Juilliard friend...
...Chevy Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.) Art Carney stars in "O'Halloran's Luck," a musical adaptation of Stephen Vincent Benet's story about an Irish immigrant who becomes a U.S. railroad tycoon with the assistance of a displaced leprechaun. Color...
...that these weekly conferences do not give him a chance to argue his views on key issues and win enough support to move a sluggish Congress. In this he is correct. It is thus encouraging that he may supplement the weekly sessions with a series of fireside chats. With luck and some thought, the chats will replace the TV conferences altogether...