Word: lures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year, the Bahamas doubled Bermuda's tourist intake, outdrew Jamaica 3 to 2, and ranked only behind Puerto Rico in total Caribbean tourist trade. Some Bahamians feel that their archipelago will soon outstrip Puerto Rico, and Sands predicts a 1,000,000-tourist year by 1971. One new lure: gambling. In the Bahamas' first real plunge, a casino opened its doors this month at Canadian Financier Lou Chesler's Lucayan Beach Hotel on Grand Bahama...
...failing common to both species is extreme male fickleness. As soon as actual mating begins, the female turns off her light lure. But if another female is in the vicinity with her light still glowing, the busy male is as likely as not to disengage and hasten to the shining new partner...
Belly Dance. Determined to find out just how the light lure works, Dr. Schaller made dummy females and lit them from inside with tiny electric bulbs. When the dummy's light duplicated the yellow-green of the live females, Lampyris males were attracted to the fake female as readily as to the real. Yellow light excited them even more, while red, green and blue light left them indifferent. Only an overanxious few were attracted by lights of the wrong size or shape...
...mating properly with Phausis females, they go for almost anything that shows a light. They have been known to try unsuccessfully for hours to mate with Lampyris females. They respond to dummies with lights that are unnatural red or blue, and they seem to prefer a dummy with a lure that is bigger or brighter than normal. Phausis females, also, are less resourceful than their Lampyris relatives. No matter how long they go unmated, they never wiggle their abdomens. Dr. Schaller believes that such Phausis dullness keeps the sexes from getting together. As a kind of compensation for this biological...
Charles de Gaulle is said to be "irked" by attempts of President Johnson to lure Pope Paul VI and the Holy See to Johnson City, Texas. Johnson refuses to comment but announces an executive order directing the Bell Telephone Company to drop ZIP codes "because I can't remember them." Richard Nixon calls a press conference to disclose the report of his advisory staff. Its conclusion, he says, is that "I should not become a candidate for public office...