Word: attractants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angeles museum glitters with flashing lights, which help attract 10,000 Southern California students each month to learn by personal discovery. When the visitor puts his finger on a generator and pushes a button, he transmits the electricity stored up in his body to a neon tube, which then glows. At an ingenious IBM exhibit called Mathematica, designed by Charles and Ray Eames, bulbs light up to demonstrate what happens when a number is squared or cubed. After a tour through a giant animated atom, students can test their newly acquired knowledge on a teaching machine...
...autos through 175 million washes this year, the car-wash industry is growing at the rate of 15 million wash jobs a year. Still, fewer than 20% of the nation's 84 million cars are cleaned regularly by car washes, and the industry wants nothing more than to attract some of those unwashed millions. Its latest lure is the low-cost, coin-operated car wash, which is activated by quarters and operated by the motorist himself...
...said he felt that the Committee would attract a large number of civic-minded Cambridge citizens, both Negro and white. Bailey said he had hoped that young people would join the organization, but had learned that teenagers from the Houghton Park area had already made plans to form a group of their own. "I believe they have plans to organize as a Negro group," Bailey said, "but will expand and integrate as things progress...
Gartner said that CORE's aim was that the Bick make a concerted effort to attract more Negro employees. Merely not to discriminate is not enough, he said...
...roach-ridden Manhattan loft studio, he is neither junkie nor jazzman but a 26-year-old adolescent with tired blood. Hunger, and doubtless boredom, drives him to nothing more desperate than a temporary Christmastime job with a schlock detective agency. The agency lends him a car, car and cash attract a girl friend, and his upfall is assured. Author Gelber's anteroom to hell has become a shabby little way station on the train ride to suburbia...