Word: lures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration has unsuccessfully sought to lure the Cambridge Chief of Police away from his position to take over the University Police. Daniel J. Brennan, Chief of Police in the city for four years, is now aiding University officials in their search for a successor to Captain Matthew J. Toohy...
...city, as someone once said, is really a problem of human engineering. And the U.S. city is admittedly suffering from slow malaise. Its planners must cope with the problem of the decay of its center, the lure of suburbs, and study the housing needs of everyone from newly married couples to the aged who must live alone because their children's small homes or apartments have no room for them. As a group, planners are frustrated men: they know (or think they know) just what should be done; but they have a hard time getting anybody...
...Nobels. Poor boys with rich minds have long flocked to Lowell's "old brick pile" at Hayes and Masonic streets. The lure is Lowell's topflight faculty and such courses as calculus, advanced biology, five foreign languages, outstanding English composition. While 21% of San Francisco high school students as a whole go on to four-year colleges, the average for Lowell is 49%. Lowell graduates consistently win honors at Caltech, Stanford, M.I.T. and Harvard...
...seasonal zeal for gift giving is not confined to the U.S. Taking their cue from the U.S., stores and streets all over Western Europe are decked out in Christmas trim to lure affluent buyers. In officially atheistic Russia, where the authorities frown upon the "bourgeois" tradition of Christmas, citizens still crowd into department stores and exchange gifts around the "New Year's trees" while children babble about "Grandfather Frost." In Hindu India, gifts and greetings are exchanged, and on Christmas Day the shops close and liquor prohibitions are relaxed. In Islamic Morocco, seven-year-old Princess Amina, daughter...
Caviar Every Day. Another lure is a flock of door prizes that recently included a purebred horse and a white Fiat. At his big January ball, Weigt announced last week, a $25,000 hunk of Italian Riviera will be given as a prize. Less successful was his plan to solve the servant problem by auctioning off a maid; it was abandoned after critical comment from a Bavarian radio commentator. Shrugs Weigt: "Servant problems are all the wives ever talk about in this place. All the men talk about is how to get out for an evening without their wives...