Word: attractants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...During the '30s," said Odiorne, "the unions as advocates of 'more' for the underdog could attract the support of independent opinion-makers in pulpit and college classroom. This independent thinker today finds himself far less challenged by the plight of the simple workman, who is often much better paid than he is for teaching college English." The loss of support means the erosion of the "intellectual respectability" of the union movement. It is a loss that labor can ill afford, for then the "union movement becomes a grand association of experts in propaganda and in lobbying...
...Alaska cannot hope to raise taxes appreciably, since it is a pioneer economy trying to attract new industry; it cannot fall back on a bonding program, said the commission, "until there is assurance that the state will be able to meet its bare operating expenses out of current revenues...
...True to his original premise that the real fact finding in the federation would have to be done later by a special commission headed by Lord Monckton, Macmillan departed from a thoroughly confused Nyasaland for the Union of South Africa, where a few Africans in the streets tried to attract his attention with homemade placards: MONTY CLOSED HIS EYES OPEN YOURS, MAC! Asked whether he would see any "non-white leaders," he blandly declared that this would be up to "my hosts." Finally, at a reception given by the mayor of Johannesburg, Macmillan found something to say that fitted...
...trail blazer, David Livingstone. "We prepare the way for them." If he had returned to his Dark Continent last week, Missionary Livingstone might have thought that his prophecy was coming true; Evangelist Billy Graham had begun a seven-week "safari for souls" through Africa, and was using methods to attract "decisions for Christ" that would have astonished the dedicated Scot...
...training and research in the whole spectrum of communications: newspapers, magazines, TV, radio, audiovisual education, speech, literacy, public relations, scholarly publishing. Under Dean Wesley Clark, it will draw heavily on other disciplines: history, political science, economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology. What Publisher Newhouse hopes for is a center to attract "the best brains at all levels"-students, editors, publishers, statesmen. Since this will cost far more than $2,000,000, Newhouse has pledged "whatever is necessary for its completion...