Word: luck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aftermath of last week's three big matches, junior Dave Fish has been sidelined indefinitely with tennis elbow. "This is a hard luck team." coach Jack Barnaby said, "but these guys are great fighters. We've had had breaks all season with illness and injury, but we beat Columbia and Penn, and still have a chance to tie for the title...
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has had no luck in getting Israel to accept his proposals for settling the military impasse along the Suez Canal. He has, however, made progress in prompting Arab unity. Last week he signed an agreement of "confederation" with Syria's Lieut. General Hafez Assad and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi. Despite the optimistic tone of the announcement in Cairo's semi-official newspaper Al Ahram, Sadat gave no indication of what form the new confederation would take, or when it might go into effect...
...complicated DNA molecule might take the shape of a helix, or spiral. From the X-ray crystallography laboratory at King's College in London, where Biochemist Maurice Wilkins was also investigating the molecule's structure, they quietly obtained unpublished X-ray data on DNA. Relying as much on luck as logic, they constructed Tinkertoy-like molecular models out of wire and other metal parts. To everyone's astonishment, they suddenly produced a DNA model that not only satisfied the crystallographic evidence but also conformed to the chemical rules for fitting its many atoms together...
...openly repudiated by the new humanistic psychologies, and some recently published evidence indicates that the apostle of emotional honesty carried on a tatty affair with his wife's younger sister. What Freud could use right now is a major revaluation by a responsible and generous biographer. No such luck. He has fallen into the hot little hands of Irving Stone...
This performance of the Passion was, unfortunately, a one-time occurrence-the musical event of the spring season at Harvard. If you missed it-and many people were unable to get tickets-you missed something peculiarly fine. Better luck next time...