Word: luck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...luck of the primary has left The Big Apple with a quartet of Little Names in the running for the mayorality. At least there is some color--Barry Farber, a radio talk-show host with a Carolina drawl and a neat knack for hyperbole, has been busily stumping the ethnic street corners, tarring his Republican opponent, State Sen. Roy M. Goodman '51, in at least eight different languages. For his part, Goodman--whom Farber describes as "a Lindsay clone"--has waged a yeomanlike battle against the Conservative nominee's barbs on one side, and massive desertions from his campaign staff...
...touching off fires in two stores and terrifying midday strollers outside Manhattan's main library. There were no casualties, but a letter calling for a "war of nerves" against "Yanki-imperialism" that was found in a phone booth made it clear that the lack of bloodshed was only luck: the Puerto Rican terrorists who call themselves the F.A.L.N. had struck again...
Surprisingly enough, there are still buyers for some of those abandoned houses. Every day, about 15 to 20 whites arrive at Salisbury's airport to make Rhodesia their home-perhaps only for a few months, perhaps longer if their luck holds. Hundreds more show up every month to look around, but are rejected as immigrants because of their lack of job skills. "It's a crazy world," admits one Rhodesian immigration official...
...luck would have it, young Teddy is not musical; touched as he was by the gesture, he declined with thanks...
Despite the loss, several Harvard backs played excellent soccer in perhaps the best performance of the season for the J.V. team. With luck, the improving J.V.s, who have played their last three battles on rainsoaked fields, will someday get an opportunity to exhibit their skills on a field that has been flushed...