Word: lures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also a fisherman's passion. Ordinary rainbows generally eat flies; the steelie -assuming it is in the mood-eats hardware: spoons, wobblers, plugs, strings of red beads, or just about anything else an imaginative fisherman happens to tie to his hook. It does not rise to the lure like a finicky rainbow, it attacks it enthusiastically-so hard that the pole may literally be torn from an unwary angler's grasp...
...plays with eyes closed, standing disjointedly and undulating as if to entwine himself around the microphone, conscious that "some chicks just come to see me move. They're stone-deaf freaks, but I'm not knocking it." He doesn't knock anything, in fact, that might lure people into a nightclub. Last year, to add a little "carnival excitement," he hired two Afro-Cuban dancers who cavorted about the stage showering the audience with confetti. Such tactics, scorned by jazz purists, bring Mann a $50,000 yearly income...
...inevitable when Bob Cousy, the magnificent guard of the Boston Celtics and one of the all-time greats of the game, was named B.C.'s coach a year ago. Cousy, needless to say, has the savvy to develop fine basketball players, and his presence at the school will lure many high school stars to B.C. who want the experience of playing under the "Cooz...
...lure of Vermont's fabled resources may be overwhelming at this point, so there's time enough to hit the road North on Route 7 to Routes 9 and 100 and Mt. Snow...
...most valuable deposit in Switzerland's bulging banks is secrecy, which the Swiss have shrewdly used to lure shy money from all over the world. Any threat to this hush-hush, confessional quality is therefore a blow at the very center of the multibillion-dollar Swiss banking industry. By the same token, a nation or group that sets out to track down the wealth of teetering tyrants or the merely discreet rich frequently looks with frustration to the Swiss banks, with their anonymous sanctuary and numbered accounts. Last week secrecy and the desire for disclosure clashed in the Swiss...