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Word: attractants (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against some auto-repair practices, notably that of charging higher rates for nonwarranty work. But most of the work is done at scattered, independent garages, which are hard to control. Spokesmen for them argue that drivers must be prepared to pay even higher fees if the shops are to attract and hold reliable mechanics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: AUTOS: THE MESS IN THE GARAGE | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

...machines of the 1940s, and particularly the atom bomb, in Hulten's opinion, helped to turn artists away in disgust from technological subject matter. But by the late 1950s, the machine was beginning to attract a new following. This postwar generation could treat a machine with easy familiarity. Claes Oldenburg's liquidly drooping Giant Soft Fan is, among other things, a gently nostalgic evocation of times past -since, after all, air conditioning is more common nowadays. Jean Tinguely's joyous black Rotozaza, No. 1 tosses out colored balls and then sucks them back in again, a mystifying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions: Love, Hate & the Machine | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

...Odessa, and along the way make stops at Andrews (pop. 11,000) and Seminole (pop. 6,000). It will have only 50 employees, but it will be highly automated. The founders are confident that it will not only make money hauling commodities out of the area, but more important, attract new industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Railroads: Rolling the Permian Basin | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

...posters--slightly censored reproductions of the banned "Two Virgins" album cover--were sold for $2 each from a panel truck parked next to Nini's newsstand. A loud-speaker on the truck blared snatches of old Beatles songs to attract passers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Two Virgins' Posters Sold in Square | 12/2/1968 | See Source »

Smell of Death. To be sure, Betio has become the Broadway of Tarawa. A dance hall teems with devotees of the newly discovered twist. Outdoor movies attract audiences of hundreds each evening (10? to sit on the ground, 20? upstairs). But blockhouses and rusting gun barrels still pock the landscape, and laborers regularly unearth skeletons that have been buried beneath the sand for a quarter-century. It all came back, Sherrod reported-"the sweetly sickening smell of death given off by thousands of bodies rapidly rotting in the tropical sun, the sight of an island stripped of every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anniversaries: An All but Forgotten Name | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

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