Word: luck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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INVESTIGATIONS Dice Dawson's Luck Ask any dedicated crapshooter in a garbage-strewn alley or a carpeted casino and he will admit it: sooner or later the cubes turn cold and hostile in the most gifted fist. The streak of Donald ("Dice") Dawson, versatile gambler and fashionable bookmaker, lasted for many years. When his luck finally sank as a result of a federal investigation centered in Detroit, the ensuing ripples knocked over 13 other gamblers and threatened to implicate a number of prominent athletes around the country...
Overnight Success. Luck? Talent? Both-as well as patience. "What other business in the world would you be in for over two decades and not even have a watch to show for it?" Coco asks. "Do I consider myself a success? Yes. Yes. I'm a huge, tremendous, enormous success. In fact, I may start a whole new Fat Man trend." For Coco, newfound success manifests itself in such niceties as a chauffeured limousine and the three-quarters of a million-dollar advance sale for Lovers. He also has a major role in Otto Preminger's Tell...
Captain Cliff Ruderman will start at the number one foil. With a little bit of luck and a lot of speed, Ruderman could pull out two victories. Phil Rappaport and Weissman's replacement. Gilbert Castle, may win a hout apiece...
...more so. Last year, despite his wage increases, the average American worker barely broke even in actual buying power. Inflation has a profound psychological as well as material importance, for it stacks the deck against the old American gamble. The nation has always bet?with extraordinary diligence, skill and luck ?that the promise of opportunity could be redeemed, that the nation's natural fertility would justify the values of hard work and individualism. Now many of the Middle Americans, who have banked on the work ethic, find themselves in a losing streak with a loser's psychology...