Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summer students "are really a varied group of people...so we have a great range of things to appeal to all groups," commented Catherine D. Williston, Social Director and Counselor for Women...
Even though the old Zionist. Socialist and religious ideals still rule, their appeal begins to fade as Israel changes. Youngsters growing up on the desert feel more at home with shish kebab and Arab bread than with mother's gefüllte fish and apple strudel. Half the newcomers of recent years are Oriental Jews who never shared the peculiar Zionist and Socialist vision of Ben-Gurion's generation, and not even the old lawgiver can keep half their young folk down on the farm for more than the first year or two. The Sabras, the native-born...
...since Little Rock. Items: EURJ In the runoff primary for Governor, Attorney General John Patterson, 36, piled up a record vote to defeat Circuit Judge George Wallace by 64,388 even after Patterson had been unmasked as the favorite of Ku Klux Klan leaders and had made a public appeal for the votes of Klansmen. Opponent Wallace, himself an unhooded knight of white supremacy, first attacked Patterson for his K.K.K. ties, then shut up when he saw that the charge was backfiring in Patterson's favor. More important than the Klan issue was the fact that Patterson had taken...
...appeal came down to Miami News staffers from Editor Bill Baggs: ''Please do not hide any more suits on the expense account." Baggs' quip was characteristic of the front-office reaction of the nation's newspapers to the recession: concerned, but far from desperate...
With most of the wealthiest contributors accounted for during an earlier phase of the campaign, the Program has, since Harvard's Day, directed its central appeal to the College's 45,000 living alumni. At the same time it is urging those who have already given to increase their pledges. The result has been a great increase in the past two months of the number of alumni participating, accompanied by a slight decrease in average daily income. According to the Program's April Progress Report, it had received about $37.3 million, representing 9,003 gifts, an average of approximately...