Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some time Padilla's verse was allowed to circulate freely, even after his critical stance toward the regime had begun to attract attention abroad. But he ran into major trouble in 1968, when an international panel of leftist intellectuals assembled by Castro's government awarded Cuba's national poetry prize to Out of the Game, a collection of Padilla's verse that had been banned by the regime as "revolutionarily unfit." One poem suggested that anyone who wanted to get along in the new Communist Cuba should learn...
Alternative careers also include (mostly low paying) with a basic commitment to service or to social change. At Duke, alternatives placement is primarily involved in informing students about such organizations as VISTA, the Peace Corps and the Teacher Corps (which still attract about 15,000 people of all ages annually and are being melded into one organization called the Action Corps), and the Office of Economic Opportunity. At Michigan State University, which runs the nation's biggest college placement operation, all 1,200 copies of each issue of its Vocations for Social Change newsletter are eagerly snapped up. It advertises...
Bellhopping Mad. The casinos are also quiet. To attract customers, El San Juan, El Conquistador and other hotels offer gambling junkets from the mainland, some including free fares or rooms. That practice was formerly frowned on by Puerto Rican government officials fearful of drawing too many professional gamblers and underworld figures...
Frederick J. Fox, pre-med adviser in Adams House, said yesterday that a school's reluctance to accept blacks often is linked with its having few blacks in important positions, and that a school's failure to attract black applicants often is linked with its not providing needed financial...
Gambril said he'll have an added opportunity to attract talent if he's appointed coach of the 1972 U.S. Olympic Team, a position he's been nominated...