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...that he has a part in that community. He is not the boss, the director. Alone he could do nothing; but he isn't alone. He is with the tutors and undergraduates carrying on an essential Harvard enterprise. He has his part--and so he is the luckiest...
...continuous questioning." The only other U.S. serviceman released by the Pathet Lao was Sergeant Orville Ballenger, 28, a member of a U.S. Army team assigned to the Royal Laotian Army, who was captured with three other soldiers in April 1961 and had been kept in solitary imprisonment ever since. Luckiest of the prisoners, by their own accounts, were Edward N. Shore Jr. and John P. Mc-Morrow, civilian pilots for the Air America charter service (which ferried supplies for the previous Laotian regime), and NBC Cameraman Grant Wolfkill, who was a passenger in their helicopter when it crashed 40 miles...
...Luckiest of all was Harbor Pilot Harold Kaiser. Unable to get off the liner United States by small boat after clearing New York Harbor in the rough seas, he sailed off to Europe on an unexpected 13-day vacation cruise...
...line worthy of the Virginian, and only Coop himself could have topped it. A few weeks earlier, at a Friars Club dinner in his honor, he rose, carrying the secret of his cancer, and spoke: "If someone were to ask me, am I the luckiest man in the world, the answer would be-'Yup.' " Coop had made that speech before. Almost to the word, it was Lou Gehrig's farewell in The Pride of the Yankees...
...hell with the grim, pessimistic facts! Let's all go to work and learn how to smile like we're the luckiest people on earth...