Word: lures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...experiment in learning at California's far-out, freedom-loving Pacific High School. A private school ten miles south of Palo Alto (tuition is scaled to income, averages $900 a term), Pacific High tries to stimulate youths who found conventional education too restrictive or boring with the tempting lure of total freedom. Students choose their own hours, classes and teachers and even sit on the board of trustees. At the end of a course, they get gentle advisory evaluations rather than grades -and are encouraged to tell their teachers precisely what they think of them...
...French housewives to London free for a shopping weekend. It picked up speed soon after Britain's devaluation, which cut sterling prices by 14.3% in terms of francs, marks, dollars and other major currencies-enough to reduce a $32 coat to $27. By last week, with the added lure of January sales, the influx of foreign shoppers to London's West End stores had swelled to a torrent...
...Canada. Preliminary negotiations were under way to offset the cost of keeping American troops overseas by getting West Germany to buy $700 million in U.S. Treasury bonds, Japan $500 million. A task force headed by New Mexico Publisher Robert McKinney, former Ambassador to Switzerland, was looking into ways to lure more foreign tourists to the U.S. The Commerce Department was recruiting a force of dozens of specialists to watchdog U.S. investments abroad...
...Lure of Profits. The missile program is proceeding apace. The Chinese, who claim to have invented the rocket 700 years ago, already have short-and medium-range (1,500 miles) missiles perfected, and this year are expected to begin building emplacements for the MRBMs along China's coast, thus bringing a large part of Asia within the arc of their nuclear capability. One of the countries sure to be pinpointed on Chinese plotting maps is Japan, which, ironically, continues to supply Chinese buyers with the sophisticated technology that Peking needs for missilery, as in the recent sale...
...Negroes with the competence-education, skill and drive-to hold executive positions. Even college graduates are more often trained in such professions as law or medicine than in science or business administration. Banks complain that they no sooner groom Negroes for higher-level jobs than higher-paying companies lure them away...