Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Zivkovic intends to make other changes in Harvard's fencing program. "It seems to me that nothing has been done in the past about recruiting," he says. "For the sake of the school, the sport, and for the fencers here, I want to attract great fencers from American high schools and from other countries. I would go to the top of the moon to attract good fencers...
...Camble, of Camble and Huff fame (the O'Jays). The strange thing about this Philly International date is that Jean Carn, who used to do some nice jazz with Doug Carn, will be playing with Wansel and his Planets. Maybe people at the workshop think they can attract both the jazz and the disco crowd by including some nice sax with a thumping bass. We'll see. If you so desire, sets for Dexter are 8:30 and 11:00, for Melba: 9 and 11:30. The Mall/Workshop is at 733 Boylston St., right near Copley Square...
...Government positions, says the report, continue to attract talent because of their "psychic" rewards. But jobs that are less visible and glamorous than, say, Cabinet posts are being drained of competent people. That includes top civil service posts, where salaries have also been frozen, since no civil service job can pay more than an executive-level position. Employees have an added incentive to quit because retirement benefits keep growing, while salaries are frozen. In 1974, no fewer than 46.6% of eligible executives with frozen salaries chose early retirement. From 1969 to 1976, the Air Force lost...
...having to give up all outside sources of income." A House reform task force is now drawing up a code of ethics similar to the commission recommendations. Whoever draws it up, a stricter set of ethics is certainly desirable. Even more urgently needed is a salary level that can attract and keep in Government people who do not require a code of conduct...
...every three Americans?male and female, newborn to nonagenarian?will see at least some of the game; just nine nations in the world have a total population larger than the Super Bowl's TV audience. Only the World Cup soccer final, a few heavyweight championship fights, and the Olympics attract a bigger one-day sports audience. All are events of worldwide interest, steeped in tradition. The Super Bowl spectacle pivots around a grand, but parochial American passion. It was born a mere decade ago, the child of technology, a unique combination of slick and schlock with no history...