Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long as we have enough Mannings to teach the young, we need not worry about the acrobats and the tightrope walkers who attract the headlines. They will pass, and the schoolmen will endure...
Poor Conduce Mossier Garrison just seems to attract trouble. Nine years ago, her second husband, Multimillionaire Jacques Mossler, 69, was murdered, and she had to suffer through a trial before being acquitted of the crime. Then there was that bad three-story fall taken by her third husband, Electrical Contractor Barnett Garrison, whom the butler found outside their Houston mansion lying in a pool of blood. Garrison is still recovering and was not around for his wife's latest escapade. An intruder who apparently had a key to her Miami Beach hotel room threatened to strangle...
...editors refuse to blame the debacle on the magazines themselves. "Editorial quality had nothing to do with this equation," Kriss maintains. Within the limits imposed by the four separate topics, the editors did attract some offbeat, incisive articles; they gave specialists like Sociologist Daniel Bell and Education Reformer Ivan Illich access to a large readership. SR's graphics improved mightily, and each magazine boasted a strong review section. Still, the clear new identity sought for each of the monthlies never took shape...
Unlike at Harvard, he will have athletic scholarships to attract top swimmers, far less stringent recruiting and admission standards, and $80,000 for Gambril to fly to any meet and bring in any prospective swimmers. "Their whole philosophy is different," Gambril said yesterday, "but while Harvard's was not necessarily mine I lived up to their policy and philosophy...
...There was nobody like him," said Dave Brumwell, one of the talented swimmers Gambril was able to attract to Harvard during his short tenure. "I'm really disappointed he's leaving, everybody...