Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems logical that any new living space opened up would attract students who wish to room with new friends outside their present House. Normally, inter-House shifting is taboo, and Wigg and Claverly offer but a minimum of relief (and Wigg will be all-freshman next year anyway). Moving to any new House also offers a tactful excuse for leaving present roommates and escaping tensions. "There's always a push and a pull in these moves," Riesman hays, "and the roommate situation may well be either...
...stamp collecting." This year total model kit sales will account for $75 million of the $1.5 billion spent on toys. Among Revell's new models for Christmas buying: a three-stage manned rocket to the moon (price: $1.98) and a Jupiter-C intermediate-range missile (price $1.98). To attract girls, there will be $1.98 life-size models of Walt Disney's squirrel Perri, a tiny koala bear and a beagle puppy, each with three bags of fur and a sprayer to apply the coat...
...bumpier weather, is operating a load factor of 52% v. a break-even point of 54%. In the twelve months ended Sept. 30, the line lost $748,944; the year before it had a net profit of $2,484,369. National's main hope is new equipment to attract more passengers; it has orders for three Douglas DC-8 pure jets, another 23 turboprop Lockheed Electras. But its place on the production line is so far back that it will not get the first 400-m.p.h. Electras until six months after competitor Eastern puts the same plane into service...
...argue that this body of left-over girls is sufficient reason for Radcliffe resident tutors is to ignore the fact that Radcliffe, since it is a woman's institution, will not attract many of the best Harvard tutors. Radcliffe is no Wellesley, and until Harvard moves to Peterborough, New Hampshire, the Annex will not have an intellectual life of its own. To increase all-girl tutorials is to make Radcliffe girls feel like "second-class citizens" and to increase a problem, not to solve...
Last week Japanese security dealers opened a major campaign to attract more women investors. Some 6,000 salesmen began a door-to-door drive urging housewives to invest their husbands' winter salary bonuses-usually one to three months' pay-in stocks. Traditionally given in December, the bonuses used to go for rice wine, New Year's gifts and new clothes. Now a flood of mail urges Japanese wives to "multiply your huband's bonus wisely -in stocks. To become a millionairess is no longer an impossible dream...