Word: lures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Earlier we saw the fantastic as a refuge from mundane reality. Liz offers a chance for a real-life adventure! But Billy is too weak for actual escape; the lure of Ambrosia is too powerful. Kidding himself to the last, he "misses" the train which carries...
...like Florida's George Hommel to spot the fish and patiently explain the technique. "You cast ahead of the fish, in the direction he's moving," says Hommel. "You try to get six to ten feet in front of him. In the grass flats, you let the lure drift, and hope he'll pick it up. In the rocky bottoms, you twitch it a little to catch his attention, because he's going by sight rather than by smell. But if a bonefish wants the bait, he won't nose around much...
...Head. In part, the influx is the result of a government campaign to lure European skilled craftsmen and professionals, who are in short supply in South Africa. The Verwoerd regime desperately wants to change the population balance, which currently stands at 3,250,000 whites v. 13,815,000 Africans, Coloreds and Asians. In cities across Europe, newspaper ads extol the virtues of South Africa, and recruitment centers offer a $168 grant for each approved man, woman and child immigrant...
...assembly not only added to the previous budget for public schools, but also voted for three new four-year colleges and a statewide system of two-year community colleges. Industrial investments of almost $600 million came in during Sanford's first two years, and he credits the lure of better schools. Says the Ford Foundation's admiring President Henry T. Heald: "North Carolina leadership may well set a pace for other states...
Profit will lure Hambros' seven partners almost anywhere. The bank was the first to help continental diamond cutters fleeing Nazism; from this risk it built a hefty business in London's diamond center. Hambros also runs 45 investment funds, and its Bishopsgate Property Investment Co. is the world's biggest fund dealing in real estate shares. In the U.S., Hambros has fared unevenly. "We lost our pants," admits Jack Hambro of a 1950 attempt to export more kippers and British honey. But in another project in which Hambros increased the exports of British cars, "we recovered...