Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Should Colorado try to halt its growth? No, thinks Republican Governor John Love. His feeling is that the state is not as prosperous as it could be and therefore must attract more industry. Since more industry necessarily means more people, the real problem is how to accommodate them. For this reason Love believes that the state desperately needs at least minimal control over its land...
...course is uncertain. Says the Rev. William A. Jones Jr., a pastor in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto who has been appointed to take over Jackson's Breadbasket role temporarily: "With his peculiar gifts, he may be able to develop a new instrument that will attract like-minded people. Whether he is giving up a Cadillac for a Rolls-Royce or a Chevy remains to be seen...
...doing his part to break down tiara snobbishness. On the opening night of this season, he coolly appeared in a stage box wearing a sweater. He already has an avid youthful following as a result of his appearances at London's summertime prom concerts, and he hopes to attract the same following to Covent Garden. "I'd like an audience that has less interest in the past and more interest in the present and is an average of 15 years younger...
...Francisco take to their cars and turn the roads leading to the city's two big bridges into fume filled alleys of torpor and noise. Last week, discarding the usual answer of building more bridges, the state's division of Bay Toll Crossings acted to attract fewer cars. As an experiment, two lanes on the Bay Bridge from Oakland were reserved for cars carrying three or more riders. Such car pools pass through its toll booths free during morning rush hours; otherwise the daily 500 fare is collected. The experiment, which will last indefinitely and cost the state...
Sense of Community. To open some new boundaries at Downstate, Plimpton, of course, needs lots of money to attract a topnotch faculty and launch new programs. He would like to experiment, for instance, with satellite clinics that could provide medical counseling and primary care to people who might not otherwise get to the hospital. He dreams of finding the funds and the staff that would allow poor people to come in for preventive checkups before they are seriously...