Word: luck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kaat is a left-hander who relies on the kind of slow-balling "stuff" that can send the Dodgers into contortions. He's probably the best prospect the Twins have for a consistent winner against Los Angeles. But the luck of the draw has placed him opposite Sandy Koufax, a winner of still more consistent sort...
...EMPEROR OF ICE-CREAM, by Brian Moore. A tough, uncompromising novel about a very young man who learns the value of self-respect by daring to meet the crises caused by an air raid during World War II. Author Moore (The Luck of Ginger Coffey) casts a cold eye on society but warms it with Irish...
...definitive, repellent but-pending realization of the dream of world order-inevitable. Soldiers in all wars usually manage to make some rueful appraisal of this human dilemma, and the G.I.s in South Viet Nam are no exception. Their catchall comment, endlessly applied to one another's hard-luck stories of great pain or minor difficulty, is a deadpan "Sorry about that...
...Murphy, 22: the National Amateur golf championship, shooting a final round 73, two over par, to beat hard-luck Bob Dickson by one stroke; at the Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Okla. Penalized four strokes in the second round when somebody (apparently, accidentally) put an extra club in his bag, Dickson battled back, only to bogey the last two holes and lose to Murphy, a stubby, cigar-chewing undergraduate from the University of Florida...
...time pleading with Pakistan's rabidly anti-Indian Foreign Minister Z. A. Bhutto. Bhutto made Pakistan's position clear: no cease-fire unless it was accompanied by a definite commitment to settle the Kashmir question by self-determination for the Kashmiri people. When Thant left to try his luck in New Delhi, a Pakistani government spokesman derided his peace proposals as "the same old thing: Don't be bad boys, don't fight; negotiate...