Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attract the public to the student architectural exhibition, the structure will be lighted at night and the plot will be landscaped this summer...
...exhibit, bossed by Harold C. McClellan, president of Los Angeles' Old Colony Paint & Chemical Co., is sponsored by the Government at a cost of more than $3.6 million, is expected to attract 3½ million visitors, who will pay a few rubles each for admission. Nearly 170 U.S. firms from 19 states have already contributed products, including musical instruments, 10,000 books, office equipment, a "miracle" kitchen, and a model U.S. house split down the middle so that Russians can walk between the halves. Two features particularly aimed at improving Russian knowledge of the U.S.: seven movie screens simultaneously...
Though everyone involved, each for his own reasons, tried to play it down, the steady, almost stealthy, exodus of 17,000 Jews from Communist Rumania to Israel in the past six months (TIME, Jan. 26) was bound to attract the notice of the Arab world. This week the largely ineffectual Arab League is scheduling a protest meeting; Nasser's Cairo and Damascus radios agonized day and night over "the new Zionist plot aided by the imperialists to bring in 3,000,000 Eastern European Jews" to "occupied Palestine...
Either under the control of the United Nations or of an independent, non-profit group, such an international civil service could attract the top men in diverse fields by offering them continuity in assistance programs and an esprit de corps comparable perhaps to the Foreign Legion. Of course, the concepts of an international group administering aid programs implies a loss of national control which is likely to be offensive to American officials. If the new corps is to gain American acceptance, it will probably have to sacrifice some of its desire for continuity in assistance projects by hiring itself...
Many Houses are using the money largely to attract "big name" visitors to their guest suites. But, to import a celebrity is expensive (he receives transportation costs plus a generous "honorarium," seldom refused). As Master Perkins explained, a House can easily spend 15 per cent of its yearly allowance on a single short-term visitor. Furthermore, celebrities are busy men, usually unable to remain in Cambridge more than a few days. Contact with students may be limited to shaking hands, trading pleasantries over sherry glasses, and a speech. It is never enlightening to hear a man--however great--repeat what...