Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four months ago, Zumwalt already has demonstrated that Defense Secretary Melvin Laird acted shrewdly in selecting him over 33 senior admirals. Zumwalt is proving unusually well-equipped in both inclination and experience to tackle the two most pressing challenges now facing all of the armed services: to retain and attract more volunteers at a time of widespread youthful antagonism toward the military, and to maintain U.S. security despite the curtailment of defense budgets...
Decorated for World War II service aboard a destroyer in the Battle for Leyte Gulf, Zumwalt also commanded a river gunboat that sailed up the Yangtze River to help disarm Japanese forces in Shanghai. There he met an attractive White Russian girl from Manchuria, Mouza Coutelais-du-Roche, who is now his wife. Trim and fit in body, Zumwalt is also a disciplined logician. He won speech and debating laurels at the Naval Academy (where he ranked 34th in his class of 615, but 275th in conduct). An eclectic thinker, he prefers reading contemporary political, sociological and technical works...
Tough Reply. There was no evidence that the Soviets deliberately tried to attract Russell's craft. But U.S. experts are convinced that the plane accidentally locked on to the Soviet beam and followed it across the border. Ground observers who reported that the craft zigzagged into Soviet airspace twice probably saw the pilot trying to correct his original error. However, two Russian MIGs swooped down and forced it to land near Leninakan. There the four men were taken into custody...
Boosterism is dying in Arizona. Meeting at the Grand Canyon, an ad hoc group of 96 leading citizens called "Town Hall" voted surprisingly to stop spending public funds to attract new industry and residents to the state. Reason: a surfeit of success. While Arizona's 20-year boom has brought immediate economic benefits, it is also impairing the state's natural beauty and resources. Though it has no official power, the group wants to conserve the state for future inhabitants. Urging more government attention to the environment, it recommends specific bans on billboards, nonreturnable bottles and detergents that...
...Mary's subject and theme. A 1924 Berlin boardinghouse full of colorful Russian émigrés simply does not have the broad appeal of Hotel. And your hero, who has been forced to flee Russia, where he apparently enjoyed a privileged life, is not likely to attract much sympathy today...