Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...organization's policymakers must take the initiative and make renewal possible. Therein lies the problem, for by discriminatory hiring and promotion policies, inept men have perpetuated and advanced mediocrity. Those who should best understand the need for renewal will be the very ones who will fight it. Good luck to Secretary Gardner; he's going to need...
Everyone feared, and some had warned, that some day, somewhere, such a string of luck would have to snap. The astronauts have always approached their jobs with the workaday fatalism of men who live with death at their elbows. When John Glenn returned from his harrowing trip, he cautioned: "We are going to have failures. There are going to be sacrifices made in the program; we have been lucky so far." Grissom himself said in words that may long be remembered: "If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that...
...after they are dead. We have the holy bones of Mondriaan and the miraculous blood of Soutine. This church has its martyrs, like Jackson Pollock. It has its bishops and cardinals-the critics and museum directors. The museums have encouraged the production of icons, holy images, and other good luck charms that have no artistic value outside the church." The church also has its missionaries-the dealers. Among the leading ones right now is Manhattan's Leo Castelli. A few years ago, the story goes, Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning remarked, "That son of a bitch Castelli...
...been greatly assisted by the topflight men who work for him. "There are a lot of top executives who can't tolerate first-class men around them," he once wrote. "They separate the men from the boys, and hire the boys." By a stroke of luck, Gardner had 14 top-level positions in HEW to fill when he took over. Lyndon Johnson gave him a free hand in filling them ("Forget about any political considerations"), and Gardner picked men for the jobs...
...Crimson could blame bad luck, for a change, on Northeastern's next goal. After a rough 90 seconds during which he was hit hard in his defensive zone, and missed goals on two nice plays with Barry Johnson, Parrot took a hard slap shot, only to have his stick splinter when it hit the puck. Parrot then took a swing in frustration in the general direction of a Huskie defenseman and was whistled known both for playing the puck with a broken stick and slashing, and sent off lie ice for a total of five minutes...