Word: lures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those who can afford it, the In place to go is Tokyo, whose 108 clinics lure an estimated 200,000 women every year. The attraction of Tokyo is easy to understand. Japanese techniques are more advanced than anywhere else in Asia, and Japanese surgeons make it a practice to keep au courant with the latest fashions in faces. Besides, Tokyo offers an advantage that local clinics cannot match: secrecy. Unless her name is Madame Ky, milady can accomplish and recover from all her rearrangements while her friends think she is on a three-week jaunt around Japan...
...lure of the outer islands is their spectacular scenery. On the oldest and most fertile island, Kauai, spreading Plumiera (frangipani), symmetrical Norfolk pine, fragrant pikake blossoms and the umbrella-shaped monkeypod trees set off lush folded ridges, twisting valleys and cascading waterfalls. Youthful (2,800,000-year-old) Hawaii has arid, cactus-sprinkled, sleepily sloping uplands, rain forests, anthurium and macadamia groves, bizarre moonscapes of rock lava topped by the snow-capped peaks of Mauna Kea (13,796 ft.) and still-active Mauna Loa (13,680 ft.). Middle-aged Maui is dominated by the rugged crater of dormant Haleakala (House...
...Sweet Charlie, by David Westheimer. Broadway's racial conscience quickens whenever it pairs a white man and a Negro woman or a Negro man and a white woman to see which combination will lure more customers to the box office. Two seasons ago, the lucky combination was The Owl and the Pussycat, juxtaposing an erudite white bookstore clerk and a hoydenish Negro prostitute. My Sweet Charlie pairs a highly articulate Negro lawyer (Louis Gossett) from the North and a slatternly white mushhead of 17 (Bonnie Bedelia). One after the other, they break into a Gulf Coast cottage in search...
...Builder Conrad Harness, who planned to put up 100 apartments and 100 homes this year, now says he is building only 56 apartment units, because "the market was so bad I had to get out." Great Lakes Homes, once a big Wisconsinbased home prefabricator, has filed in bankruptcy. To lure customers despite forbidding mortgage terms, some Boston builders have offered to shave $1,000 or $2,000 off the sales price if the buyer will accept a house with one or two unfinished rooms. Allstate S & L, taking over a tract of $45,000 homes from a bankrupt developer...
...little by little with almost no regard to coordination. In preplanned cities, industrial and residential sectors are separate. Comprehensive transportation system eliminate traffic congestion and waster treatment systems prevent air and water pollution. New towns usually have better recreational and cultural facilities than old cities of comparable size. They lure large industrial firms that provide the city with adequate tax revenue. By attracting white-collar and blue-collar industries and building homes for a variety of income levels, new cities could achieve a balanced social and racial population...