Word: luck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blade," says Don White, a mechanical engineer at Douglas Aircraft. "I imagine nearly every guy has had at least one engine failure, and this is something you can cope with. The gyrocopter just settles down to earth. But if you lose your rotor blade, you're out of luck. It's like a wing on an airplane." Fortunately, the gyrocopter is what pilots call "a forgiving plane"; the construction tends to give on crashing, and there is little mass to crush or entangle the pilot. "If he lands in any direction but upside down," says one flyer...
...while it looked as though the two stars might be fighting for second money as a 44-1 shot named Sweet Luck leaped into the lead. Going into the last turn, Trainer-Driver Stanley Dancer abruptly swung Cardigan Bay wide to make his move; at almost the same instant, Driver Frank Ervin cracked his whip, and Bret Hanover rushed forward to challenge for the lead. He never quite got there. At the wire, old Cardigan Bay was a length ahead. Loser Ervin offered no alibis. "I had a good journey," he said. "But Cardigan Bay is a great horse...
...Surete arrives. Irritable and coming down with a cold, Inspector Graziani starts tracking down the surviving occupants of the compartment. But locating them takes time. Meanwhile someone else is having better luck-and simplifying the Inspector's task...
...were lucky to see once every two to three days. My father never owned a Rolls-Royce or had plush vacations. He rarely had time for family functions or a movie. I am 31, in debt, and struggling to support my family while completing my training. With luck I will be able to open my office at the age of 35, thereby going further into debt. However, when I die at about 55 or 60 (20 years from the time of my gala opening), I will be able to say that I am free and clear. Hasn...
...naturalness is never naivete. When he says of a successful play, "It's all luck" he says it as one who knows the ins and outs of the New York theatre world, the hard work as well as the element of chance. He admires entertainers tremendously. "My mother liked theatrical people and they were always around the house - not the big names, of course, but they had it in their blood. I remember in particular one family in Flatbush -- one was a showgirl. A showgirl considers herself much above a chorine, you know. There's world of difference...