Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Time. Johnson has had bad luck with some of his closest advisers. Bobby Baker turned out to be a money-hungry charlatan. Walter Jenkins, Moyers' overworked predecessor as top staff man, was arrested in a Washington Y.M.C.A. men's room and booked on a morals charge. Moyers is honest, resilient and, above all, shrewd enough to insist on getting away from his man-killing job whenever possible. He insists on spending all the time he can with his family. Invited to Camp David for a weekend with Lyndon and his entourage on one occasion, he said...
...dogged Indians. Back on the set, he found even such old pros as Major, the 500-lb. lion, were acting up. When Major refused to roar on cue, his trainer jabbed him in the nose with a long pole. No luck. Director Robert Day then ordered a native crewman to sneak up from behind and prod Major's rump. The Brazilian blanched and declined-until he was given an on-the-spot salary hike. Later on, Major shifted from depressive to manic, escaped during a Rio zoo take, sent visitors scrambling for their lives as he rambled free...
...second wave had better luck. Landing 200 yds. to the north, its ten commandos managed to scramble across the beach and up the bluff. They walked straight into an enemy village. Chickens scurried out of their way and goats stared at them in surprise, but the village was otherwise deserted. Luckily for the mercenaries, the Simbas had been called elsewhere. Down the road, the chatter of a Russian banana gun joined the machine guns firing at the beach. The commando lieutenant sent a patrol to silence it, then set fire to a cluster of thatched huts as a signal...
...such luck. Last week, after a head count, Keppel found that only 217,000 Negro students-7.5% of school-age Negroes-had entered predominantly white schools in the South, an increase of only three times that of last year. Instead of compliance, much of the South had once again played the game of tokenism or outright defiance...
...Dating. The chances against anyone having such a stroke of luck were astronomical, and that as much as anything was one of the reasons that Victor and Marston consulted R. A. Skelton and George D. Painter, two experts with the British Museum, for exhaustive research, evaluation and testing of the manuscript. In lengthy papers, crammed with scholarship and bristling with footnotes, Skelton and Painter tell in The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation how they authenticated and dated both the map and the manuscript...