Word: lured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franco hoped to lure monarchists, who form his strongest opposition, into the Government camp. He had used the trick successfully before to divide his enemies; his maneuver amounted to a promise that the monarchists could eventually have the sort of regime they want, if they will support him, as a bulwark against Communism, in his lifetime...
...that Eva Duarte was born on May 7, 1919, in the tiny village of Los Toldos in Buenos Aires province. Her father, Juan Duarte, was a handsome and susceptible small landowner of nearby Chivilcoy. Her mother was a dark-eyed Basque named Juana Ibarguren, whose charms were sufficient to lure Juan from his wife. The couple set up housekeeping in a tumbledown house with an unkempt yard overrun by chickens. They had five children, of whom Eva was the last...
...lure them Down Under is the job of tall (6 ft.), irascible Arthur August Calwell, Australia's first Minister for Immigration. His Government's long-range goal is a population of 20 million (present population: 7½ million). Calwell's job has not been made any easier by the fact that Australians still have definite ideas of what kind of immigrants they want: ten Britons to one from other lands, very few "reffos" (Aussie for European refugees), few southern Europeans, and, in the long-established Australian tradition, no Asiatics. Last week Calwell flew to London to pound...
...publicity stunt to lure tourists, Alberta's Social Credit government staged a "national dish" contest, offered $1,000 in prizes. Contest rules called for a dish "distinctive to Alberta" which could be served by restaurants for not more than $1. Six thousand plain and fancy recipes (including one from a wag who suggested "grilled gophers fried in Turner Valley oil with Alberta gas over a mountain range") swamped contest headquarters. Last week in Edmonton, the judges selected a plain-sounding winner...
...surprise was shared by Lucky Stores, Inc. and its burly, pink-faced president, Charles Crouch, 49. As an experiment he had hired New York's Raymond Loewy Associates to see if barnlike, depressing super markets could be imbued with some beauty. Crouch had an idea it would help lure in housewives. When he opened his $248,000 store, Crouch thought it was beautiful enough to gross $39,000 weekly. Last week, when he totted up the first four weeks' take, he found that he had underestimated its beauty; the gross was averaging...