Word: attraction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hollywood feature films do well on TV, what would happen if movies were made for TV to begin with? They would be pretty bad, that's what. But they would also attract big entertainment-hungry audiences. Last week, after the third round of World Première, a series of special, two-hour TV-movies being filmed by Universal Pictures, NBC was in gleeful possession of at least the No. 2 and 4 ratings among all the movies shown this season-topped only by ABC's incredibly popular rerun of a movie-movie, Bridge on the River Kwai...
...would extend to everyone the privilege of a free fifth course -- now reserved to juniors and seniors taking honors tutorial. And it would supposedly attract students who want to experiment with a course they wouldn't ordinarily take, and who want some recognition of it on their transcript, but don't want to risk a bad grade...
...Alpine and Nordic men do not compete as a team again until the St. Lawrence University Carnival at intersession. During January several minor meets attract men on an individual basis...
...violence in Caracas was clearly a FALN effort to offset its loss of prestige in rural areas, where the peasants have grown increasingly unsympathetic. FALN may also have hoped to attract new recruits to its ranks. From a strength of 500 full-time terrorists only three years ago, the organization can now count on fewer than 250 full-time gunslingers. By the time Leoni's drastic new cleanup campaign is over, the ranks will be thinner still...
...more freedom of action than any of his predecessors had enjoyed. The changes show already. No longer is the overseas Times a truncated version of its New York parent. Its makeup reflects a new concern for news from all over Europe; feature stories from home are reprinted to attract tourist and expatriate alike. And Paris, which is, after all, the paper's home base, is getting much more attention. "We have not covered Paris as it should be covered," Gruson admits, "but we are starting." Besides that, he adds, "we are the only newspaper of any language in Europe...