Word: lure
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...UNDERSEA WORLD OF JACQUES COUSTEAU (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Two sea lions, Pepito and Cristobal, make friends with Jacques Cousteau & Co. aboard the research vessel Calypso until the lure of the sea becomes stronger than human friendship...
Another genre might be called Installation Romance. By George R. Stewart (Storm), out of Vicki Baum (Grand Hotel), such books lure the reader into the pullulating heart of some modern institution, which thereafter teems with professional expertise and ersatz emotion. Among the best and most successful recent examples are Arthur Hailey's Hotel and Airport. Next year, intrepid fiction reporters will go inside such serious installations as hospitals (The Death Committee by Noah Gordon), the aircraft industry (Brood of Eagles by Richard Stern), and the construction of a New York skyscraper (The Builders by William Woolfollc...
...been sober since his wife left him a year before. On the Day of the Dead, 1938, she suddenly returns, but it becomes increasingly clear that there is no way that he can respond to her, no way that he can free himself even for a day from the lure of the quasi-hallucinogenic Mexican drink, mescal. Near the end of the day, the consul stumbles away from his wife into the bar which has harbored his deepest depressions and his most hopeless binges. There he meets a group of Mexican fascists who accuse him of spying for the Spanish...
...boss. But he gets along well with California's right-wing extremists. He directed U.S. Sen. George Murphy's campaign in 1964, and he ran comfortably on Ronald Reagan's ticker for Lieutenant-Governor. Perhaps both men have decided that the cities deserve more than tax incentives to lure business into the ghettoes, but they have no indicated any change of heart since the election. Nixon's biggest contribution to the urban crisis has been to appoint Rogers--a county bond specialist--as Attorney-General instead of the J. Edgar Hoover type his campaign promised...
...some men yearned for a military base from which terrible new weapons could dominate earth. Some speculated on vast new reserves of mineral wealth. Others yearned for, no more than the challenge of the trip. For whatever reason, the moon, as it still does, beckoned to all. Its lure seems irresistible...