Word: luck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jury of Peers. In the Los Angeles area, California's Alcoholic Beverage Control Board had no better luck in trying to control the situation by threatening to revoke licenses. Haled before the board, Whitey Locker, proprietor of Santa Monica's The Ball, protested that his club was patronized by some of the town's leading citizens: "How, then, can you say it runs counter to the community's sense of decency...
Church leaders admit that it is somewhat easier to set such a policy than to enforce it. Because of their decentralized structures, most Protestant bodies have to rely on persuasion rather than what they shudder to hear called a boycott, and local churches have had little luck in trying to go it alone. When one racially mixed Presbyterian church in St. Louis insisted on a fair-employment clause in a contract to renovate its sanctuary and build a new community house, it spent months trying to find a contractor willing to cooperate. Even then, difficulties were encountered-such as pipes...
Penn's victory undoubtedly will be a lift for Eastern racquet coaches in general, who have been plagued by Harvard coach Jack Barnaby's "good luck charm." In the past several years, Barnaby has won an amazing number of "cliff-hangers" in tennis and squash...
...Time and again, he told White House visitors, he had been urged by foreign statesmen to negotiate. Time and again he had expressed his willingness. Time and again he had asked those statesmen to go out and find some responsible party for him to negotiate with. So far, no luck...
...Many of the local admen have been trained on Madison Avenue or in London, but most are Asians. They need to be: a fine feeling for local sensibilities is an absolute necessity. In color ads pitched to the area's numerous and affluent Chinese consumers, red means good luck, and yellow is the grand color of the ancient empire; pale blue-a funeral color-is used only by unsavvy art directors. A package tipped on its side suggests business collapse, and a half-filled pack of cigarettes conjures up visions of half-empty rice bowls. Because comets...