Word: luck
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...Resolving Power. Other astronomers have also looked for extragalactic molecules, but without any luck. Lacking sufficiently sensitive radio telescopes, they could not detect the faint "signatures" left by such molecules in the radio waves coming from distant galaxies. To overcome that obstacle, Weliachew, now a visiting astronomer at Caltech, hooked up the school's three big antennas in California's Owens Valley-two 90-ft. dishes and a 130-ft. dish -so that any two of them could be used simultaneously. That technique gave him the resolving power of a huge single antenna with a diameter equal...
...home from the consulate-collect. In Paris, only the seriously injured, the infirm and those with a hardship story good enough to make strong men weep have any hope of parting the consulate from $235 for air fare home and a $40 subsistence allowance. Of the hundreds of hard-luck kids whom consular officers interviewed last year, only eleven passed his truth test. One headache for the U.S. consulate in Rome is youngsters who use their last lira to get to the city's Fiumicino Airport to catch their flight home-but forget about the $1.60 airport...
...just emerging from a decade that left their tight paramilitary structure shaken and disorganized. The bitterness of past Mafia wars still lingers, especially between Colombo and Joseph Gallo, the volatile former Profaci triggerman whose defection sparked the 1961 war. He once kept a wildcat in his basement and, for luck, a dwarf on his payroll. Released last March after serving nine years for extortion, he returned to New York with a grudge against Colombo and heretical ideas about recruiting blacks into Mafia ranks. These have made him the subject of speculation regarding the shooting...
...actually been around for eight years. It was published in London, without causing much commercial stir, shortly before the author, a young American poet, killed herself. Bringing it out in the U.S.-after years of opposition from the author's mother -was either smart publishing or egregious good luck...
Kistiakowsky's wartime career is noteworthy and somewhat frightening because he designed the triggering mechanism for the atomic bomb. He describes his involvement in explosives research as "a matter of pure luck." Kistiakowsky said he "expected like other chemists to become involved in chemical warfare." He offered his services in June 1940 to the National Defense Research Committee. "Conant told me, 'Get involved in explosives research,' which I thought was like being sent to Siberia." Kistiakowsky said he spent the summer of 1940 in libraries and "discovered that explosives were a very unexplored matter...