Word: lures
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Murder and mayhem sell papers to anyone, it was thought, but blacks in particular fall for the lure of violence. And as Chicago's four dailies began to battle in earnest over the city's burgeoning black population in the early 1960s, the gore they featured increased...
...attitude of Harvard athletes by transforming it into a train-hard-and-win philosophy. Gambril, who brought Harvard to the pinnacle of Eastern swimming and then, seeing the restrictions, the limitations, the frustrations of coaching with a limited budget and restricted recruiting powers, who saw than even with the lure of Cambridge and John Kenneth Galbraith he could only entice a limited number of stellar swimmers into the Cambridge-Harvard web, who realized reluctantly but perceptively nonetheless, in two years where others had taken more, that he could never rise above seventh or eight in national swimming ranks...
Good fortune is no escape, Updike warns. "Indeed, the more fortunate our condition, the stronger the lure of negation, of perversity, of refusal . . . Thus the devil thrives in proportion, is always ready to enrich the rich man with ruin, the wise man with folly, the beautiful woman with degradation, the kind, average man with debauches of savagery. The world always topples...
...from the mountain air of Tennessee is Camperland, a 200-site concrete parking pad built by the Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas. Overnight fees are only $4-a lure that supplies the Stardust with patrons for its casino, restaurants and nightclubs. Since Jan. 1, some 70,000 camper-customers have been boosting the hotel's business. The parking lot itself contains a small swimming pool, bathhouse and laundry room, where women campers who have just been coiffed at the Stardust beauty salon compare notes on the evening's entertainment along the Strip...
...real test, of course, is whether a rebuilt Chicago can lure suburbanites back into town. Real Estate Tycoon James C. Downs Jr., head of the Central Area Committee, is optimistic: "We are shifting to an adult urban society. The birth rate is down, and people are not going to find it very attractive any more to make the commute from the suburbs every day. We've also passed the threshold in the integration battle." Mayor Daley clearly agrees. At the official release of the plan, he proudly called it "one of the great acts in the renaissance...