Word: attractive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...player relations among his National League duties, is a skilled negotiator. But it will take more than persuasion for baseball to keep pace with the speedy '70s. Not only does the organization of the major leagues need to be restructured, but the game itself must be streamlined to attract the action-mad modern...
Just the Man. His links to Washington impressed some American industrialists and Greek politicians. Pappas decided that he was just the man to bring the two groups together and attract U.S. capital to his native land. He even compiled a list of Greek politicians and other leaders and for years sent them cards at Christmas and on their saints' days. After a few small business deals in Greece taught him how to cut through Athens' labyrinthine bureaucracy, his biggest coup came in 1962, when Standard Oil (N.J.) went into partnership with him. The Greek government sought bids...
...chain attempted was to write a definitive history of the campaign. In this effort he failed. Not because he didn't gather the facts about the campaign, but because he didn't understand the forces which made 1968 such an abnormal political year. Witcover admires Kennedy's ability to attract students and black support as well as white ethnic votes (Hungarians, Polish-Americans). In his attempt to avoid analysis, however, he leaves all the background threads hanging--unconnected to the facts of the campaign. Thus, Witcover spends 35 pages describing RFK's post-Jan. 31, 1968, re-thinking...
...Luther King, Jr. student aid funds. And almost all the faculties revised and accelerated their recruitment procedures to find and bring students from disadvantaged areas. The number of black students in the Law School has risen appreciably in recent years. Now an increased effort is being made there to attract from disadvantaged areas black students who give promise of returning to those areas to put their new-won professional competence to work to help their friends and neighbors...
Parallel efforts made by the various faculties to attract black faculty members to their ranks met with less success, for the supply of qualified black academics is far below the current demand. It appears increasingly probable, therefore, that we shall make our most significant contribution in this area in the years immediately ahead by concentrating on attracting on attracting promising students particularly at the graduate level. If we succeed well here we shall, of course, ultimately increase the supply of black teachers available for both graduate and graduate professional study...