Word: attraction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This year we have to have some results--otherwise Harvard will lose its standing with the alienated and will begin to attract normal people...
...Chefs. To attract the VIPs, Mobutu spent $10 million that he could hardly afford. On a bluff overlooking the Congo River, he built an entire village to house the delegates, complete with four-bedroom bungalows, tennis courts, a swimming pool and even a miniature golf course. Thirty tons of food were brought in for the occasion, and stewards prepared to serve 600 bottles of imported wine a day to accompany the meals cooked by 20 imported Belgian chefs. While bands played such incongruous tunes as Marching Through Georgia, squadrons of police escorts roared down Kinshasa's boulevards all week...
...Seth Taft, 44, grandson of the 27th President and cousin of Congressman Robert Taft. A lawyer, Taft wants to bring municipal government closer to the people with 15 "branch city halls," promises to revitalize a sluggish urban-renewal program. He is an energetic and knowledgeable campaigner who would probably attract many normally Democratic votes on ability alone. But, in a race with Stokes, he would probably also attract many other Democrats who could just not bring themselves to vote for a Negro...
...most responsible is a burly, black labor leader named Ted Watkins, 44, a born cajoler, red-tape cutter and pragmatic humanitarian whose Watts Labor Community Action Committee has shown an uncanny ability to attract outside help while galvanizing Watts from within. Watkins and fellow...
Invitations were already out from the rival stores, Alexander's and Ohrbach's, not only for big press showings of originals and their duplicates in mid-September, but also to such big names as the Duchess of Windsor and Mrs. Nel son Rockefeller, who would help attract a glittering crowd to public displays a week later. Though the original dresses had sold in Paris for between $700 and $5,000, Ohrbach's and Alexander's copies, made from the same French fabrics and virtually impossible to tell from the originals, would sell...