Word: lures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Britain's shrewd Lord Rank, 73, turned over the chairmanship to John Henry Davis, 55. Five years ago, as Rank's deputy in running Britain's biggest film studios and theater chain (507 houses), Davis, a onetime accountant, decided that increased pay and leisure would lure working-class Britons away from the movies to other and costlier forms of entertainment. Accordingly, the Rank Organisation closed or sold 148 theaters and put the proceeds into dance halls, bowling centers, highway restaurants and a new electronics division. While other British moviemakers languish, Rank's profits last year were...
Exemplary Education. The lure of all this has brought Andover a seasoned faculty (average age: 46) with only six bachelors as compared with 95 married men, reversing the traditional ratio and filling the campus with children. The teachers are formidable men. A young housemaster may be not only a Ph.D. in classics or physics, but also an ex-paratrooper or Harvard crew captain...
...Detroit. Flint and Muskegon, Kennedy seemed to enjoy battling for the underdog Democratic Governor John Swainson against Republican George Romney. Scorning Romney's attempts to lure Democratic votes. Kennedy drew cheers with the quip: "One of the most interesting political phenomena of our time is to see Republican candidates in various states who run for office and say 'elect the man.' You can't find the word Republican on their literature-and I don't blame them." A different kind of sign greeted Kennedy in Detroit. Said one: "Congratulations J.F.K. on Mississippi Stand...
...only partially successful. What is more, no one can put a price tag on the bitterness that was engendered among union members during the early years of the struggle. Kohler managed to keep open for all but the first two months of the strike by hiring nonunion labor. The lure of the paycheck persuaded many men to quit the U.A.W. and go back to work. In dozens of U.A.W. homes in Sheboygan, one man returned to Kohler-and found himself the enemy of his father and brother...
...Vita and the writer-hero of Luchino Visconti's La Notte. He has proved himself a masterful comedian with his current performance in Pietro Germi's Divorce-Italian Style. With credits like that, he understandably has no interest whatever in learning English. Hollywood has tried repeatedly to lure him, but young men seldom go for old tarts. "What is being done here in Italy," he says, "is far better and much more mature and advanced than anything cinematic being done elsewhere...