Word: lures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lure of this high volume has brought several major companies into the stereotape market, is increasing pressure for standardization. RCA Victor, which will record tapes for Ford, has selected a cartridge system developed by Wichita's Lear Jet Corp., recently demonstrated it in Manhattan to 40 other recording companies in a pitch for adoption of an industry standard. On the strength of Ford orders, Lear has set up a separate division in Detroit to manufacture its tapes and cartridges. Motorola, which is building the dashboard players for Ford, is already working on the next stage of cartridge stereo-tape...
...Broadway musical Bajour, Chita Rivera, 35, plays a crafty gypsy con-girl dedicated to the gentle art of separating suckers from their cash. And who should be picked to lure loot-laden tourists to the New York World's Fair when it opens next week? Of course. Naming the hot-eyed Latin actress New York City's official summer hostess, Mayor Robert Wagner, 55, cooed: "Chita Rivera symbolizes in a wonderful way the warm welcome we want to extend to each of our guests." Fair warning...
...chance to develop our own true excellence-our Oxford, Cambridge or Harvard," notes Canadian Social Scientist Bernard Ostry. Despite good salaries (the median full professor's pay is $14,163), there are many staff vacancies. Three Canadian college presidents recently toured five U.S. campuses trying to lure graduate students from Canada back home to teach...
...where government troops set an elaborately bloody trap for the Viet Cong. Since 1945 the Communists had held sway over the delta's mangrove-choked Uminh ("Forest of Darkness"), which Vietnamese legend said was inhabited by werewolves. Not even the French were able to penetrate it. Managing to lure two Viet Cong battalions out of the forest and into a "hollow square" defense perimeter, government infantry pounced, as "Cobras"-armed U.S. helicopters-moved in with close support. While naval support craft slammed away with cannon from a nearby canal, the helicopters herded Viet Cong prisoners out of paddies like...
...French orientalist cynically concludes that "Islam, as a faith and a law, can no longer exist in modern civilization." Yet the continuing lure of the hajj for all Moslems, from fellah to philosopher, makes it clear that the spirit of Mohammed's faith is not so easily stilled. Far more likely than slow extinction is that Islam will gradually undergo the same kind of transition that Christianity went through, as the concept of Christendom fell before secularization. In time, Islam may lose its overtones of an ideology governing all of life-as Christianity did in the Middle Ages...