Word: attraction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elected? In 1951 won on a fluke, running against a whom even Republican Party regular call "an idiot." In 1960, the campaign much together; Stafford is a slick, read candidate whose words may what the people of Vermont want hear. To win the state, Meyer the Democrats must attract at least per cent of the Republican vote, before counting on most of the Democratic Independents. His chances are less and even...
...threatening the Middle West from a beachhead near Detroit, may soon be undone by synthetic sex. Martin Jacobson, Morton Beroza and William A. Jones, all of the U.S. Agricultural Research Service, tell in Science how they have isolated and synthesized the powerful chemical lure with which female gypsy moths attract their males...
...much "research" is not all it might be. and is sometimes at the mundane level that most impresses state legislators, there are signs of improvement. With huge budgets, state universities can lure and equip more top researchers. With lower tuition than private schools, they attract more graduate students. At the University of Michigan, 40% of the enrollment is graduate students. At Cal, it is 43%. Many state universities are moving in the direction of the exclusively graduate institution that the rest of the world calls a university-even though they will always have undergraduates...
...Pickup. Most klaxoners, known by such names as Yvette of the Opel, Rossana of the Dauphine, Maria of the Appia, discreetly toot horns and flash headlights to attract the prospect's attention. In a favorite gambit, pairs of klaxon girls pull right alongside male motorists; the one at the wheel keeps the car just abreast, the other casually unbuttons her blouse. Blonde "Insurance Nadia," on the other hand, got her name by her habit of gently jostling a male driver's rear bumper, then sidling out to coo that her insurance company will pay damages...
Monro pointed out the need for a plan to interest and attract students with limited educational opportunities or poor economic backgrounds. Most programs "come at this problem from the top," he said, and a foundation like the National Merit Scholarship Corporation "sends people to college who are going anyway...