Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seat lust house that he renamed The Screening Room. He spent $50,000 refurbishing and expanding it and as much on legal fees fighting police efforts to close it down. Since 1968, the box-office gross has risen from $100 a week to an average $8,000. To attract repeat patronage, de Renzy shoots a new 90-minute picture every month or so, and his cinematic technique is improving with practice. At first his stars were prostitutes, but he now casts only amateurs, generally hippies; he gets them for $50 a picture through an ad in the underground Berkeley Barb...
...Cornfeld, former social worker and founder of the world's largest mutual fund complex, last week joined the army of the unemployed. Shareholders of his Geneva-based Investors Overseas Services, Ltd. gathered at the annual meeting in Toronto to elect a chairman and directors, and Cornfeld failed to attract enough votes for a seat on the board. The new chairman is Sir Eric Wyndham White, 57, who has acted in that role since Cornfeld was ousted as chief last...
Camping that takes the wild out of the wilderness does not attract everyone. Among those who still prefer the wilderness untouched is KOA President Darrell Booth, a former manager of the Billings Chamber of Commerce. He took over the job in 1967 after Drum, realizing that he was a better idea man than administrator, stepped down to a vice presidency. "Roughing it is my bag," says Booth. "But as a businessman, I know that if that was all I had to offer, I'd go broke. Most people nowadays want good facilities. I'll provide them, and meanwhile...
Rosemary and her new-found friends did not begin to attract attention until 1966. Understandably, she says. "I thought people would think I was crazy." Then she was introduced...
...have had to adjust rather fast, for it is not games you have been playing here during these years but rather the real thing. Yet amidst the upsetting alarums and excursions occasioned during your years in college by a determined few who have worked consistently to attract attention to themselves by misrepresenting what we are about, as you have gone ahead with your work, you have made clear one hopeful sign. That is, your generation's vigorous assertion that you will not be satisfied with a learning or a way of life whose most convincing credentials are only that they...