Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With such romantic exploits behind him, Arias easily won his 1964 race for the National Assembly. But before he could take his seat, his luck ran out. A disgruntled political crony shot him down in the street. Hit four times in the neck, shoulder and chest, Arias was left paralyzed from the neck down, unable even to speak. His political career seemed over. Dame Margot flew from London to be with him, took him back to Britain, where he was hospitalized for two years while he received medical care and therapy. Dame Margot gave up her jet-set social life...
...deaf, blind, illiterate Alaskan Eskimos had never heard of Ruby's crime, much less seen it on film. Yet his lawyers settled for shifting the trial from Dallas to Wichita Falls, a mere 135 miles away. True, Mars was out, but why Wichita Falls? Simply the luck of the draw. The case came before Judge Louis T. Holland, who was sitting temporarily in Dallas, but whose regular district includes Wichita Falls. Not only would Holland have thus kept the case-a situation both sides applauded-but, as Holland saw it, the smaller city (pop. 140,000) was "far enough...
...surprise was not that he failed, but that he came within sighting distance of making it. A penny-ante player in a potluck game, he filled a couple of inside straights early, and these may have brought him more bad luck than good; when the law of averages straightened out, he fell easy prey to frustration, confusion and bitterness. He didn't have the equipment, and that only whetted his ambition further. What he did have was a fast spiel, a talent for flattering the real movers and shakers with grandiose ideas, and an astonishing gift for getting people...
...Smith remains on the second line in place of Bob Fredo. Fredo, hard-luck player of the Christmas Tournament, received five stitches above his left eye when a B.U. shot caught him in the first game, then was knocked out for good with a shoulder separation in the Cornell game...
Last week, five days after McChan's release, Judge Carter's stock as a prophet went up while McChan's legal luck began to run out. Two gunmen held up a Baltimore bar, shot a barmaid twice and killed the manager as he knelt in front of his safe from which he had just handed over the cash. The barmaid managed to give police a description. Next day police spotted the getaway car, found McChan in it, held him on suspicion of murder...