Word: luck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their first choice Catcher Steve Chilcott, passing up hard-hitting Reggie Jackson. Chilcott has never played a major league game, while Jackson?who has already hit 45 home runs for Oakland this season?is developing into one of baseball's great sluggers. Sometimes, though, the Mets had better luck. That same year, for example, they picked up a handsome young pitcher named George Thomas Seaver...
...increase international good will. "Nixon has a real chance, a great chance," he argues. "There is a balance of mediocrity in the world now. The world could move forward because that is so." One area in which Nixon has moved is in U.S. relations with the Soviet Union. With luck, and if the Pentagon's generals can find agreement with the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency's negotiators, there is some prospect of serious strategic-arms-limitation talks between the U.S. and the Soviets very soon...
...rival Long Island Press. Wrote Columnist Walter Kaner: "Penelope Ashe's scorching novel makes Portnoy's Complaint and Valley of the Dolls read like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.'" McGrady still insists that the stunt was an exercise in gullibility, not profiteering. But with any luck, success may yet spoil his two dozen Penelope Ashes. In his latest memo, he has urged his fellow novelists "to be thinking about a sequel. One suggested title is Son of the Naked Stranger. Personally, I prefer Naked Came the Stranger Again...
...master on one of his father's two freighters before he took over in 1959. "I bought my first ship with my father's good name as the only guarantee, but that was enough," he says. With that kind of credit, plus hard work and luck, he has built up a fleet of 600,000 tons. He takes pride in knowing by name all the crewmen on his 20 ships...
...sophomore at Maine's Colby College: "The astronauts' achievement was great, but I'm sorry that our country doesn't put as much money into solving the problems of war, poverty and sickness." Outside the Manned Space Center, black demonstrators carried the bitter message: "Good luck from the hungry children of Houston...