Word: luck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, billed as "one of the great orators of past centuries," was in Israel at the time of his planned speech at the 1952 Mock Convention. A Baptist minister eventually delivered the keynote, substituting for McKeldin's replacement. (The speakers program has always been plagued by bad luck--one of this year's speakers planned speakers fail-to come here because of a cracked...
Sneaked Stills. As luck-and medicine-would have it, neither network got in. The Blaiberg operation came up too fast, and Barnard barred all film crews from the operation. A Cape Town fashion photographer, posing as a medical student, did sneak into the operating-room observation gallery and grabbed some stills; NBC attorneys got a temporary injunction prohibiting him from "selling or disposing" of them. A doctor who had brought his subminiature camera into the operation also took a few pictures but handed them over to Barnard after a reprimand...
...nearest the base of the thumb) and give a prediction as to the length of life and the state of health along the way. The fortune line, sometimes difficult to find, is located lengthwise in the center of the palm, and gives an indication as to the subject's luck and money. Then there are the love and head lines, which cross the palm from left to right parallel to each other. The head line reveals to me the quality of the mind, the emotional set-up, and frequently I even estimate I.Q., generally with quite good accuracy...
...McNeill also changed his mind. Forgetting his warning, he stated that Sledge was now of sound mind and sane. No contradictory testimony was offered by any state witnesses, and the jury had little choice but to free the killer. Sane enough at least not to push his luck, Sledge immediately left the state...
Puzzled, a group of University of California astronomers ran their own tests at California's Lick Observatory. No luck. Then someone had a bright idea. While working with the same spectrographic equipment that the French had used to examine the dwarf starlight, one of the astronomers struck a match. Voilal Potassium lines! The Californians' conclusion, reported in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific: the potassium "flares" were probably produced when French smokers-not dwarf stars...