Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Good luck to those students of the future. I sincerely hope they will be fully equipped with that "new maturity" required of them. They'll need...
...Adjustment Act to prevent companies from making contributions by buying advertisements for political fund-raising functions. Already, 30 corporations have placed enough bulk orders for the $12.50 volume, which has no advertisements, to cover the party's $100,000 initial investment. State Chairman Monks predicts that with luck profits could reach $550,000. "If it's successful," says an envious Democratic Party staffer, "we'll be doing...
...Houston, a school that only began playing major-college sports in 1946, it was the culmination of a building program that has already produced championship-caliber teams in golf, football and baseball. But basketball was luck. In 1964, Isaac Morehead, basketball coach at Texas Southern University, a predominantly Negro school, walked into the office of Houston Coach Guy Lewis and begged him to recruit a prospect from Eula Britton High School in rural Louisiana. The young man's name was Elvin Hayes; he played, said Morehead, like Bill Russell's younger brother. Morehead's reason for approaching...
...work out his luck when he came to the Pennsy, Saunders had two major aims. One was to shake awake a slumbering, 121-year-old railroad that had stumbled onto hard times. Falling earnings and a high debt had led the road's conservative management to cut back on new spending; the Pennsy had hardly enough modern equipment to remain competitive. The new boss changed all that by allocating huge funds ($577 million in the last three years alone) for new equipment and by branching out into fields other than railroading. His other goal was to push through...
...warmed up to a description of the kind of work I'd probably be doing with refugees and came out to the IVS house with me for dinner that night. Later I drove him to the field hospital at Ton San Nhut, said good-bye and good luck, never expecting to see Mike again...