Word: luck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reaction of other women to their new experience of housewifery. Valerie Kraus, 34, quit her job as an Illinois teacher last fall when she saw her two children "were losing me and the attention and love that only a mother can give. Soon afterward," she recalls, "at a pot-luck dinner at church, we each had to tell about the nicest thing that had happened to us recently. Other women talked about their jobs. When my turn came, I said, 'This is the first time I've stayed home and I thoroughly enjoy it!' People just said...
...Good luck on your Emkatz...
...where you are. In Rio, you kiss a person twice, once on each cheek. In the city of São Paulo, you kiss a person only once. But in the interior of São Paulo state, you kiss three times, alternating cheeks. The third kiss is for luck in marriage. This gets to be a problem when you leave a party and have to kiss 50 people goodbye...
...Eastern tournament heavyweight class will be short on really super athletes, matmen like Princeton's John Seftnor, who is the man to beat. With any luck, Smith ought to finish second and could even nip the Tiger grappler if he can take advantage of Seftnor's one weakness. The Princeton heavyweight once broke his neck playing football. If he gets in trouble, he is incapable of bridging to avoid a pin. The only problem is, how do you get him on his back to begin with...
...most important question of life concerns fame-who gets it, who doesn't, and why. Some-Lenin, Joyce, for instance, go on from the murky obscurity of 1918 Zurich while others stay behind. Is it talent, luck, a combination of the two? Or is it the blind dice shaking in the hands of an angry god, rolling thunder, Jordan and sixes with equal equanimity and an uncaring laugh...