Word: attractive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Significant Contributions." CIA is only one of nine agencies* in the U.S. intelligence community, but it is primus inter pares and the right arm of the National Security Council. Master Spy Allen Dulles not only sketched its functions but also the kind of men the nation needed to attract to such duty. "The agency," he suggested to Congress, "should be directed by a relatively small but elite corps of men with a passion for anonymity and a willingness to stick at that particular...
Some candidates hired drummers to precede them and attract crowds; others leased elephants or rode about on camels. The fakir who last year tried to walk on water and sank is running for Parliament "by order of God." India...
When it is completed in the early seventies, it may attract more than a million visitors a year. Twelve acres of new real estate will be opened up in the heart of Harvard Square. No one has vet predicted precisely the consequences of the Kennedy development, but there has been ample speculation: land values around the site will inevitably rise, and the competition for potential building sites will become increasingly intense. Over the long run, the prospect is for major redevelopment all around the Library site, and specifically more growth westward along Mt. Auburn...
...Howard speech] was a bold beginning. The speech seemed to attract more attention as time passed, and indeed is almost certain to find a place in the history of Presidential papers. Yet before half-a-year had passed the initiative was in ruins, and after a year-and-a-half it is settled that nothing whatever came...
When Professor Robert R. Bowie organized Harvard's Center for International Affairs in 1958, he wanted to attract first-rate public officials from the United States and other countries to spend an academic year at the Center on leave from their services. He envisioned an exchange between these visiting Fellows and the Center's Harvard associates that would have "significant effect" upon international policy-making...