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...model for the nation." Implemented with relative serenity, the Dallas plan called for the busing of some 17,000 students (out of 136,500 in the district) and a heavy concentration of federal funds in schools that were still largely minority. But its centerpiece was a progressive concept: the "magnet" school, designed to lure ninth-to twelfth-grade students of all races by offering them a variety of educational inducements. Desegregation in Dallas, claimed Estes, would pose "a stark contrast" to the violence in Boston, Louisville and other cities. Placid it was, but last week the New Orleans-based Fifth...
...over the American West, billboards touting such curiosities as 60-ft. cacti and petrified armadillos lure travelers from the interstates to the tourist emporiums of dusty towns. Lacking any such magnet, Clayton, N. Mex. (pop. 3,000), a farming and ranching center nine miles from the Texas border, was long, in the words of Local Merchant Leon ("Buster") Zinck, "a forgotten city?even in Albuquerque." But no more. Now Clayton's Union County Fairgrounds boast a unique attraction: a 100-ft.-tall windmill, the first in the land to be built by the Government to supply electricity...
...city that care forgot," tourism has traditionally been the second biggest money-spinner after its port, the nation's second busiest. The French Quarter, its major magnet, is a trap, not an attraction, a mart of sleazy sex shows, watered whisky and jaded jazz...
...Billie Jean King or Muhammad Ali. But I'm in a team sport. It takes ten more guys, and I don't see why I should rip all the glory." Payton first attracted attention at Mississippi's all-black Jackson State, which became a magnet for pro scouts as he set an N.C.A.A. scoring record with 66 touchdowns. Looking for a centerpiece for their rebuilding effort, the Bears picked him in the first round of the draft...
...time an estimated 30 million sq. ft. of Manhattan office space was standing empty, including 10 million sq. ft. in the World Trade Center, which had opened only three months earlier. Nonetheless, Walter Wriston & Co. remained faithful to their plan to build not merely rentable space but a midtown magnet for people...