Word: luck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thirty people, apparently all scheduled for interviews at the same time, waited two hours for staff members (of whom there appeared to be only three) to talk to them. Those remaining at six o'clock were informed that the interviewers were going home. They were invited to try their luck again the next day. The girl handling the interviews was inept and apparently without experience. She asked only routine questions, already answered on the application forms which she obviously had not read before-hand...
...mild a word to describe Jimmy Clark's turn of luck. The best-known racing-car driver in the world, two-time Grand Prix champion, winner and twice runner-up in the Indianapolis 500, Clark had not won a Grand Prix race all year, and he had lost his world title to Australia's Jack Brabham...
When Clark finally tramped on the throttle, he got the sweetest shock of the year. "The car ran beautifully." His luck had turned again-and so had his competitors'. Italy's Lorenzo Bandini, the early pacesetter, was forced out when his Ferrari developed engine trouble on the 34th lap. Champion Brabham took over - but a cam follower on his Brabham-Repco snapped on the 55th lap. Gunning his Lotus into the lead; Jimmy Clark stayed there the rest of the way, averaging a record 114.94 m.p.h. to win the 20th Grand Prix of his career and the biggest...
When he is through speaking, the crowds engulf him, clutching at his arms, reaching over his shoulders to grasp his hand, clapping him on the back. "You're wonderful!" women cry. Men shout, "Good luck!" He is besieged for autographs. Reagan is not a compulsive crowd plunger, like Nelson Rockefeller, or an irrepressible hand grabber, like Lyndon Johnson. By nature he is almost reticent. At a factory gate, he will often wait with hands limp at his sides, nodding a .bit awkwardly at passers-by until someone recognizes him. Then, on center stage, Reagan's face lights...
Harvard's hard-luck cross-country team evened its season record in one glorious swoop by clobbering Pennsyivants, 17-39, and Columbia, 22-39, in a triangular meet yesterday afternoon at New York's Van Cortlandt Park...