Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Montreal to see Expo. The news from home at least was good. All of Australia is pulling for an upset and praying for one-including a tribe of aborigines on Mornington Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria, who have promised to sing a "wind corroboree" for good luck every day that Dame Pattie races...
...that it never happened again." A letter from former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who tapped Robens for the N.C.B. job in 1961, told "Dear Alf" that "the test comes when things go badly-all the more galling when it really isn't our fault but just bad luck...
...Spouses Charlotte Ford, 26, and Stavros Niarchos, 58, with 14-month-old Baby Elena, sailed aboard Stav's 190-ft. schooner Creole. Since divorce ended their 15-month marriage in March, the jet set's odd couple has toured Europe and Africa together, may be pushing their luck on the Creole-where their zigzag alliance got going in the first place...
Reviled by her neighbors, she maintains a wintry dignity by creating the fiction that she is a noblewoman temporarily down on her luck, awaiting an inheritance from her father's estate...
Colicos' accomplishment is especially welcome, for it illustrates what can be done by long and dedicated hard work without any pronounced help from lady luck. In the early seasons of the Festival, Colicos was just one of the many actors doing yeoman service in small parts. From Lodovico in Othello, Gratiano in The Merchant of Venice, and Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing, Colicos was advanced to the important supporting roles of Laertes in Hamlet and Lysander in Midsummer Night's Dream. Then, in the final offering of the 1958 season, he was entrusted with the central role...