Word: luck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flash photos have long been a matter of luck and frustration for the amateur photographer. Either he totes around cumbersome, electronically-charged strobe lights that always seem to go on the blink at the wrong moment or stuffs his pockets full of flashbulbs that have to be coaxed into the camera's flash gun before every photograph. Now Sylvania and Kodak have developed a neat solution-the Sylvania flashcube, which is no larger than an ice cube and contains four miniature flash bulbs, each with its own built-in reflector. Packaged in threes for $1.95, the plastic-coated cube...
...Knowles Jr.* at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital (TIME, June 8, 1962). The major difference was that Everett's arm had been torn off by a train. Pennell's hand had been neatly severed-a great aid for the North Carolina surgeons. For that bit of luck, Pennell had himself to thank; just before the accident he had sharpened the ax that...
...Stroke of Luck. Faraday grew up in a London slum. His parents were kindly, God-fearing and bone poor-the boy at times had nothing to eat but bread and water. At 14, he was apprenticed to a bookbinder-bookseller who took a shine to the likely lad and let him browse through his library. At 20, Michael began to attend scientific lectures, and at 21 he suffered a fateful stroke of luck. He caught the eye of Sir Humphrey Davy, the greatest chemist in England, who hired him as an assistant and whisked him off to the Continent...
...elections for a new constitution within the next three months. Philip, however, did not say nothing. "I recognize," he remarked, "the impressions of many Africans about Rhodesia. But I think that it is better to spin out the solution of these difficulties with patience, and with a bit of luck get a peaceful result rather than risk a bloodbath by forcing the pace...
...Indy hands had to admire the way the "sporty-car" driver from Scotland held his bucking car steady and braked it to a stop on the infield grass ("Of course," added Rodger Ward, "if he didn't, his tail would've been a grape"). The same evil luck dogged Clark in Europe all summer: he won three out of his first five Grand Prix, seemed well on his way to a second straight championship when all sorts of little things started going wrong. In France it was a hole in a piston, in Germany a broken valve. Clark...