Word: attraction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...started when David Hahn, a former M.I.T. student, and Ronald R. Riepen, a student at the Law School, realized Boston was well behind the rest of the nation in high-quality discotheques. Their answer is the new "psychedelic discotheque" at 53 Berkeley St. Rather than attract a spectator crowd of teenie boppers, they have tried to "encourage an atmsophere of sophisticated participation...
These critics have chosen the middle road. Their efforts represent an attempt to establish a respectable posture of opposition, an alternative to the shrill dissent of the left wing, a course of moderation which may yet attract many of their elders and dissuade the President from upping the ante. It is a desperate effort. But it might work. It could still bolster the doves within the Administration. It just might convince the President that Americans will stand behind him in efforts to negotiate or at least limit the conflict. The President--caught in a tightening vise between those who want...
...University has to sell itself today -- to students, prospective faculty, and to donors, both private and corporate. It has to project an image which will attract the best of all three. The University of Chicago does not have as much pure prestige as some of the Ivy League universities. Nor is it as way out as Berkeley. Being Midwestern, it is probably in the middle, and is trying hard to establish its own identity. Three factors will probably determine the outcome of this identity crisis -- the university's educational reputation, its Chicago neighborhood, and financial needs...
...urgency of this effort by quickly running through the principal campaigns now in progress or in prospect. (I should like to say at once, parenthetically, that a major ground for hope for success in these efforts is the quality of the alumni leadership we have been able to attract to head them. These leaders' acceptance of such responsibility testifies both to their loyalty and devotion, and to the importance of the causes they have agreed to serve...
...Posvar's Air Force specialties was the methodology of decision making, a facility that will be sharply tested at Pitt. The school's financial troubles were blamed largely on poor budget control, an overemphasis on costly graduate studies, and the failure of a tri mester system to attract summer students. Turning to Pennsylvania taxpayers for help, Pitt gained a $5,000,000 emergency appropriation in 1965, then became a "state-related" school last fall. As a result of this change in status, state support was hiked from $6,000,000 to $20 million; but Pitt also...