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...Alerted Coast Guard cutters sped toward the scene. Then, responding to the pilot's frantic efforts, the rear engine sputtered alive again. The pilot was able to return the crippled aircraft safely to an emergency landing in Miami. Said Passenger Janet Jacobs, of Hollywood, Fla.: "We are the luckiest people alive...
Sparky Anderson is hitting fungoes. "They've forgiven us," marvels the Detroit manager. "Baseball has to be the luckiest business in the world. Whatever we do to louse it up, we can't." Johnny Pesky is chewing tobacco. Everything Sparky says, the wrynecked coach of the Boston Red Sox endorses with a streamer and a splat. "Baseball," Sparky says, "is bigger than the people running...
...very luckiest-or dullest-of people might testify, individual signals have a way of misfiring just as easily, with results just as calamitous if not as earthshaking. The danger of misunderstanding increases dramatically when even the most elementary signals are used by people in different cultures. The happiest of overt American signals, the circled thumb and index finger, unless accompanied by a smile, amounts to an insult in France. The innocent American habit of propping a foot on a table or crossing a leg in figure-four style could cause hard feelings among Arabs, to whom the showing...
...civilizations, America seemed the luckiest. With its vast Edenic spaces and immense natural wealth, with its extraordinary freedom from the stultifications of caste and poverty, the place seemed born in luck. Or so it appeared to the white Europeans who settled the continent, if not to the Indians they violently displaced or the Africans they imported in slave ships to work the plantations. Americans eventually made the mistake of describing their national luck as their "manifest destiny." In any case, America became the place where the world came to get lucky. Americans believed in the splendidly transforming powers of luck...
Seven-thirty that Saturday evening and the entire class, bathed, brushed, shined, combed, and shivering, hurries through the dark night and biting wind across the campus to Prospect Street, where the grounds of 16 plush clubhouses--and the not-so-plush Prospect Cooperative Club--stretch before them. The luckiest ones have received several bids and join one of the big five...