Word: luring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This spring, with the Mets playing almost 500 ball and outdrawing the Yankees, the management is beginning to act like the Yankee management. The Mets might win a pennant sooner this way, but they will lose their true friends, and not even their new escalator-equipped stadium will lure the secure Yankeephiles...
...eighteen that William decided to pursue a career in painting. Vainly he had striven to escape the lure of the brush during a restless summer in Germany. He yearned for a decisive test of his mettle. Since early boyhood he had painted, and his skill and interest had long been recognized...
...blue-chip Catholic high schools for bright kids. The payoff is an honors program of students with average college board scores in verbal and math aptitude of 707 and 712. This year's overall freshman class tops rival Holy Cross with average scores of 605 and 625. To lure its whiz kids, B.C. last year shelled out more than $1,000,000 in financial...
...lure professors, Walsh unabashedly raids other schools, offering salaries as high as $16,000, plus a climate of intimate scholarship and access to the riches of nearby M.I.T. and Harvard. Clerical interference is apparently no B.C. problem. All of its controlling trustees are Jesuits; the faculty has 143 of them, the world's biggest Jesuit teaching community. But the total faculty of 750 is full of non-Catholics, and free expression is the B.C. fashion. Washington's Catholic University recently banned a proposed speech by Germany's liberal Theologian Hans Kiing; Boston College warmly welcomed him, having...
...essentially a spectacle," says France-Soir President Robert Salmon, "the press should become more and more explanatory, not only giving the news but explaining it." France-Soir's diminutive (5 ft. 2 in.) Editor Pierre Lazareff, 55, has set up a study group to chart new ways to lure back readers, is planning to bring out a remodeled paper soon with the same appearance but a greater depth and variety of coverage and "a new tone which will be saisissant." Parisien Libere is experimenting with special suburban editions to combat burgeoning local dailies. To reduce the temptation of payola...