Word: luck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Seldom in modern history have so many significant interacting trends been brought into focus at one conference. In the wake of West Germany's ratification last week of the treaties of Moscow and Warsaw, the way is now open for a further series of diplomatic maneuvers that with luck could finally defuse the old cold war confrontation in Europe. In the Middle East, perhaps the most unpredictable area of superpower involvement, the Soviets seem to be restraining their Arab allies, perhaps pending the outcome of the Moscow summit. Then there is Viet Nam, where Hanoi's offensive against...
Different as they are, Brezhnev and Nixon could admire their mutual skill at political maneuver and their long, hard way up to power. Brezhnev's triumph springs from a mixture of perseverance, hard work and calculation -plus an ample measure of good luck. The child of Russian working-class parents, he was born in the Ukrainian town now known as Dnieprodzerzhinsk. He had the right proletarian qualifications for Soviet success, but his early career was not singularly promising. After graduating from a trade school in Kursk, he held a series of unspectacular jobs: land surveyor, factory worker, school director...
Prosperity is a relatively new fact of life at the Trib. For much of its history, it was a red-ink case, belying the efficacy of the owls with which Founder Bennett decorated the paper's original Paris office as a good-luck fetish. But the Trib has been solidly profitable since 1968, and an enormous owl still holds the place of honor in its offices. Appropriately, the metal bird is gilded...
High above, beyond that turbulent atmosphere, Mariner 9 had better luck. Once the storm subsided, it focused on a remarkable range of Martian features...
...heard him getting out of a limousine. Smitten by love, he can't bring himself to explain that he'd walked through the car because it had blocked his path, and supports her original illusion with a lot of fancy talk and an occasional stroke of luck...