Word: converting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crime rate of 30 hardened delinquents was halved by a Harvard research project designed not to convert but to gather data...
...Vadim, was lavishly lauded as her best bedtime story to date. To celebrate, she and her constant consort, Actor Sami Frey, 27, buzzed off to a Right Bank bistro to nuzzle the night away, touching off a spate of speculation in the Parisian press that Brigitte might, for Sami, convert to Judaism. ∙ ∙ ∙ As Russian Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, 52, told it to a select little clique gathered to watch the Bolshoi Ballet troupe at the Metropolitan Opera House in Manhattan, his wife, Irina, is an in curable shutterbug, with a passion for sunsets. When she goes back...
...They were bossa nova in their time" Such U.S. jazzmen as Flutist Herbie Mann heard the new music, liked it and began putting it in their programs back home. ("Twist music," said Mann, ";is all show and promise -no inner fire. Bossa nova is just the opposite.") Another early convert was Jazz Guitarist Charlie Byrd, who heard bossa nova while on a State Department-sponsored tour of Latin America. It was simple, Byrd discovered, "to play a very full jazz solo with this stuff; you can do a great deal that you can't do with regular four-four...
Dubinsky, however, does not regard himself as just an employer. Garment union staffers, he argues, are not "just job holders," but rather "missionaries out to convert the unorganized." As he sees it, the leaders of FOUR "can only be prompted by the commercialism of our times," and are out to create "dual loyalties" within his union. To avert that calamity, Dubinsky has decided upon a course taken by many a capitalist before him: he vows to fight the NLRB ruling through every possible court, a process which could delay FOUR's recognition as a certified bargaining agent for another...
Thus, he urged, "we should take the time and talents of the draft records and convert them to army recruiting stations." "Surely the army can be made as attractive asthe navy or the air force," Harvey said, noting that neither of these services has a draft program...