Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...player draft he imperiously rejected a popular All-America from Holy Cross named Bob Cousy. "What do you want me to do," growled Auerbach. "win basketball games or satisfy the local yokels?" Cousy, insisted Auerbach, had yet to prove himself. The Celtics got Cousy back by a stroke of luck. When the Chicago Stags, a team that had acquired Cousy in a trade, folded, Celtic Owner Walter Brown picked Cousy's name...
...told, 20 men were injured as the teams from eleven nations tried their skill -and luck-on the Igls run. Only the Italians seemed immune to the hex of the Hexenkessel. Led by Eugenio Monti, 35, six times world champion in two-man bobs, and Sergio Zardini, 31, a wiry hotel manager from Cortina, Italy's daredevils placed first and second in both the two-man and four-man events. Monti's best time for the two-man bob: 1 min. 6.4 sec., for 51 m.p.h. average...
...Arangos have had better luck than one of the originators of chain discounting that Jeronimo Arango studied in New York. In Manhattan last week, with $4,000,000 in bills piled up, Masters, Inc., filed a bankruptcy petition. Masters, which has seven stores in the New York area and four more in Pennsylvania and Florida, blamed its fall on too rapid expansion and poor store locations...
...Argentina's retired Juan Miguel Fangio recently went so far as to call him "one of the greatest race drivers in the world." But after eight years on the circuits, Gurney may sometimes wonder if selling insurance would not be better. Few top drivers have suffered through worse luck...
...Mans and again at Rheims; both times his co-drivers wrecked the cars. At the Dutch Grand Prix in 1960, the brakes failed on his British-built BRM; the car hurtled off the track killing a spectator and breaking Gurney's left arm. Nowhere has Gurney's luck been worse than at his home-town Riverside International Raceway, a course he knows blindfolded. Last March, he won a $13,250 stock car race, but his Chevrolet was disqualified for being "gutted" to reduce its weight. Last October, Gurney was leading the Riverside Grand Prix when a 10? part...