Word: luck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hopeless life of a full-fledged drug addict. But last year a family-guidance counselor referred him to Leon Brill, an associate of Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. That may have been the first piece of good luck in B.'s unhappy life. Jaffe and Brill asked him to join a pilot study on a new drug that seems to have the remarkable effect of inhibiting the "high" induced by heroin and other morphine-based narcotics...
...captain of a coastal freighter, John (Jarl Kulle) has docked at a Swedish port to pick up a cargo of sand. With two long evenings to kill ashore, he watches his young crewman charging off in pursuit of pleasure and decides to try his own luck with a cafe waitress (Christina Schollin). The girl, Anita, mother of a child born out of wedlock, remembers him only as a drunken lout who was rude to her on another visit two years earlier. Warily she declines his first invitation, and he smugly vows he'll have her; on the second evening...
...young dude in a silken mustache and patent-leather shoes adrift through the California gold mine country, Harte discovered the literary lode he was to tap for the rest of his life. The Luck of Roaring Camp and The Outcasts of Poker Flat, two short stories published in the Overland Monthly magazine, gave readers so honest and vigorous a draft of frontier life that Harte became an overnight celebrity. It is fair to say, as O'Connor does, that the literature of the West began with Bret Harte...
Chris Pardee, a hard-luck story in last year's Heps when he lost his shoes and finished second in the high jump, will try to hold off Cadet sophomore Karl Kremser for the title tonight. Pardee edged Kremser on fewer misses at 6 ft., 6 in. the IC's, but the Army jumper missed clearing...
...while some comfort could be taken from the fact that apparently none of the Batman products would be able to talk-or sing. No such luck now. Eight record companies, including RCA and MGM, are selling Batman disks...