Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Broadening the popular appeal with less expensive circus acts is one way of attracting more customers. Billionaire Howard Hughes thinks that joining a full range of recreational facilities with gambling may be the winning combination. He is planning to build a $150 million addition to the Sands Hotel that will include rooms for chess and table tennis, an ice-skating rink, a movie theater, a vast bowling alley and a poolroom. Hughes recently paid an estimated $17 million for the Strip's 524-room Landmark Hotel, giving him six hotels (and their casinos) worth $80 million. That moved...
Birth control crusader Bill Baird yesterday collected signatures at Harkness Commons for a petition supporting his Dec. 2 appeal on a five-year prison term in the Massachusetts Supreme Court...
FUNNY GIRL. Barbra Streisand comes on strong in a musical biography of Fanny Brice. The film will appeal mainly to those who feel that the leading lady can do no wrong...
Ruling Style. Yet Caetano must walk a delicate line. He is probably in more danger from the right than from the splintered left. Portugal's great landowners and ultra-conservatives have a tendency toward panic, and if they thought Caetano were slipping even fractionally leftward, they might appeal to their army allies to intervene...
...first issue contains ingredients that should appeal to both races. One story tells about a Harlem group that is trying to bypass the city and organize a separate school district that will report directly to the state. Literary Critic Alfred Kazin contributes a whimsical appreciation of the Upper West Side: "Nowhere else I have ever lived is there such excess of money to comfort, of comfort to taste, of taste to safety." Above all, the Tribune plans to be a paper of investigation. For the first issue, a team of reporters did some comparison shopping and concluded that Harlem residents...