Word: attraction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Because of its size--over 500 students per class--the Law School's stature should not diminish much in the next few years. But if the school intends to maintain its pre-eminent position in American public life, its new Dean must try a wide variety of policies to attract the nation's best students and teachers...
Arousing a good deal of controversy, Riesman said that the Law School tends to attract the "uncommitted student" who sees a degree in law as a good beginning for any one of a wide spectrum of careers. The Law Schools also attract activist students who are apt to place a good deal of pressure on the Administration to liberalize the curriculum...
...school connections. Harvard and Rutgers also and no doubt other places have had seminars on law and the behavioral sciences. But sociologists, to take only my own guild, have only rarely tried to learn anything about the law except that those highly visible but peripheral escarpments which attract laymen generally: courtrooms and trials, criminals and the area of insanity, and constitutional litigation, especially in civil rights and civil liberties...
Oddly enough, while the government has lately gone all out to attract tourists to Czechoslovakia, it has detained more than 60 Western tourists in the past year, many of them for minor traffic violations or petty smuggling charges. It has yet to explain the mysterious death of Charles Jordan, vice chairman of the American Joint Distribution Committee, whose body was found in the Vltava River in August. Another sign of a less permissive policy: Czech border guards have opened fire on fugitives from Communism, in the past two months killing two and wounding three others who were trying to cross...
...Klobukowska, 21, born in Warsaw, was raised as a girl and always thought of herself as a girl. She grew to a lithe and powerful 5 ft. 7 in. Though she had negligible bust development she seemed, with shoulder-length blonde hair, sufficiently feminine to attract plenty of male dancing partners in Warsaw night spots. When she cropped her hair recently she looked a bit less feminine, but after the International Amateur Athletic Federation ordered sex tests for female athletes, she paraded naked before three women doctors last year in Budapest and was passed as a woman without question...