Word: luck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With luck, the new Cabinet will last until the new elections in April 1968. This would make Moro runner-up for the postwar endurance championship among Italian Prime Ministers, after the late Alcide de Gasperi, who resigned in 1953. However, Italian politicians, especially Christian Democrats, dislike strong leaders, and they will be doubly tempted to cut Moro down-just as they did De Gasperi. Observed one Roman: "Aldo Moro is the father of his party right now, but it's risky being Papa if your children have an Oedipus complex...
...Zardini's luck ended. Plummeting into the turn at 80 m.p.h., his sled literally took off, hurling its occupants headfirst into the protective superstructure and spilling them out onto the track. The empty sled rattled on across the finish line while rescuers rushed to its crew. One had a concussion and a broken cheekbone, another was badly bruised, a third was unhurt. Driver Zardini was dead, his head crushed by the wooden safety rail...
...pride of a nation. The British, who built the heroic Spitfire and the world's first commercial jets, sometimes seem to feel the decline of their aviation more strongly than the decline of their Empire. The ominous signs have been obvious for a long time-the bad luck of the Comet, the financial losses of the Britannia, and now the lack of a market for the long-range, rear-engined VC 10. Though popular with passengers, the VC 10 is costlier to operate than the competitive Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8, and Britain has failed...
...80th year of the world's greatest pianist. The birthday was only a few weeks ago, and the days that followed were typical, too, of Rubinstein. There was a concert to be played in Boston, so he packed his suitcases, not forgetting a shoe bag crammed with the good-luck charms that his four children have given him over the years?baby shoes, a turquoise marble, a set of jacks, a pipe-cleaner doll, an acorn, a crumbled plaster angel. He put on his fur-lined blue suede shoes and his long navy blue overcoat with the wide Persian lamb...
Broadway comedy standards may have deteriorated some since the days of Kaufman and Hart, but they have yet to plummet to the level of Happily Never After, and with luck will be spared the experience...