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Word: attracted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...imagine that the Center did attract this type of person, and began to express a diversity of viewpoints on the full range of issues facing the poor countries and the international system. It might then be possible for the Development Advisory Service to send an advisory group to North Vietnam or Cuba, and for Center staff to advise the Pather Lao forces or the Venezuelan guerrillas on agrarian reforms or educational techniques or strategy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOKEN RADICALS' | 10/27/1969 | See Source »

Although Flaherty remains the favorite, Republican John Tabor, 48, a Yale classmate of New York's John Lindsay and a politician with similar personal appeal, is posing the first serious G.O.P. challenge in 25 years. His Czech background suits ethnic groups, and he is trying to attract the city's blue-collar workers by hinting that he will oppose right-to-work laws if they will yield slightly to black demands. A former state secretary of labor and industry, the moderate Tabor promises to switch millions of dollars from patronage jobs to strengthen the police department. "If that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: CITIES: SHATTERED ELECTION PATTERNS | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

Another rationale such playwrights resort to is that they are alerting the audience's conscience to contemporary evils. Far from it. These playwrights simply trade on the headlines of the day and gamble that the people they attract will come to the theater precisely because their consciences are on the alert. There is nothing easier than to preach to the already converted. For any but a guilt-collecting audience, most of these plays rate a big B for Boredom. There is no moral suasion in crude hack work that substitutes lapel-grabbing diatribes for scrupulous dramatic craftsmanship. A poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: The Guilt Glut | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

...some of the basic problems in foreign affairs." Although Fellows are regularly accepted from the U.S. armed services, State Department, and other agencies, many foreign Fellows are recruited. Ben Brown, director of the Fellows program, said that the Center has had a Yugoslav Fellow and has tried to attract Fellows from Rumania, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. According to Vernon, the Center still has an invitation outstanding to a Russian official to be a Fellow...

Author: By Jay Burke, | Title: Money and the Social Scientist | 10/22/1969 | See Source »

...Lighting system has not solved a key problem: the bulky gas cylinders require most of a car's trunk space. The $300 charge for converting a car to natural gas is also likely,to deter all but ardent conservationists.'Still, the prospect of greater operating economy could attract fleet owners, start mass production, and eventually lower the conversion charge. If all U.S. vehicles ran on natural gas, its advocates claim, smog could be reduced by as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Air Pollution: Toward a Cleaner Car | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

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