Word: attraction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...player works in the lounge by day. ("The women have themselves a real ball. They like it. and it sure beats going home to do the dishes." The Bronco, another Dallas bowling alley, features two restaurants, a four-chair barbershop, beauty shop and dance band, and is diversifying to attract nonbowlers by installing pool tables, table tennis and miniature golf. Eastgate Colosseum near Cleveland has a swimming pool. 18 billiard tables, indoor miniature golf and pingpong, and handles weddings and bar mitzvahs as well...
...into lightning-charged clouds. The experiment, they point out, has an eminently practical purpose. Radar observation of thunderclouds has shown that lightning often precedes the formation of rain. Vonnegut suspects that the lightning creates vast numbers of charged particles that cause a cloud's small water droplets to attract one another and swell into drops large enough to fall as rain. If he can learn how to make lightning flash in a growing thunderhead, he may yet learn to coax rain from a cloud that would otherwise soar unproductively overhead...
...should involve at least one or two students from the large segment of the Radcliffe population that has been obstinately cynical about the need for and function of student government. Only by consulting these students can the SGA representatives hope to come up with a revised organization that will attract greater interest and participation than the present...
...published every day but Sunday, the Western Times hopes to attract regional ads with a package deal: advertisers can buy space in either the Western or parent edition, or both. But while the paper will compete with Western dailies for advertisements, it does not intend to compete for local news coverage. Western subscribers will get the New York Times minus those stories of purely parochial East Coast interest...
Except for one small plot, the University owns all the Houghton Renewal land which fronts on the river and is available for buildings. If Harvard uses only half of this river-front space for its married students' dormitory, the remaining space will undoubtedly attract private interests...