Word: lusterizing
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...stock market, the shares of companies that own casinos in Las Vegas rose as high as gamblers' hopes. They have faded just as fast. A combination of boardroom battles, rumors of underworld links and Government investigations, reports TIME Correspondent Roger Beardwood from Las Vegas, have tarnished the investment luster of the gambling industry. The downward slide of casino companies' stocks has left many investors feeling as though they had fed the family fortune into a one-armed bandit...
...president, the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, for Roman Catholics and Whitney Young Jr. and Roy Wilkins for Negroes -although not necessarily for militant ones. The process of forming a commission reminds Sociologist Daniel Bell of a Communist front group. Though the purposes are clearly different, both bodies try to achieve luster by seeking "big-name" representatives of various groups: women, blacks, Catholics, Jews. "If you find a black woman," says Bell, "you've hit a home run." Unlike Communist front groups, however, commissions consider extremism in any form a vice. Better that the commissioner have no clear party label...
Harrison attributed some of the lack luster play to the psychological let down the team underwent after its 93-71 win over a good B.U. team last Thursday...
Just lately a shift in feeling has set in. As times grow more difficult, the new looks less promising; the settled old ways take on new luster. Anyone too inclined to idealize the countrified past, however, or dote on the imagined joys of continuity, might do well to study, as a cautionary text, this extraordinary portrait of an English village. Akenfield is a pseudonym for a real agricultural village of 300 souls about 90 miles and-until recently-several cultural centuries removed from London. "On the face of it," remarks Ronald Blythe, "it is the kind of place in which...
...official guests a year and must meet a payroll of 300 employees. The Queen could reduce her expenses by shutting down the Royal Mews, the part of Buckingham Palace that houses the state coaches, carriages, horses and cars. To do so, however, would seriously dim the luster of regal elegance that now surrounds the monarchy...