Word: magnetism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intend to make the schools a magnet for the white suburban families who will be attracted to the city by the quality of education offered," Boston Superintendent of Schools William H. Ohrenberger wrote. "If the housing in these areas of the city concomitantly improves, the influx of white families will dramatically reduce racial imbalance...
...fall in the price of copper or coffee," said Chilean OAS Ambassador Alejandro Magnet, "is more serious for our countries than Communist subversion...
...uniform quality at present, but the museum is already a well-honed teaching tool. "We need art to look at," says Director Hinkhouse. "A properly arranged quantity of good art works which present history with taste is a start. That is the only way a museum can become a magnet for excellences, a watering hole...
...Urban League leaders, who argue that Cubans now hold 30,000 jobs in the Miami area that otherwise would be available to Negroes, expressed fears that the Negro unemployment rate-already much higher than the general average -would rise still further. Miami, they point out, is as potent a magnet for Negroes in other parts of the South as it is for Cubans. Though as yet there has been no racial trouble between the two groups, the threat is there. As Charles Bowder, an unemployed Negro laborer, put it: "I don't know the Cubans well enough to hate...
Roman Candle Shows. The new museum will not only put a stop to the drain, Brown is convinced, but also prove a magnet in its own right. Says he: "We cannot rival the Metropolitan in the Met's terms now. No one is taking whole carloads of treasures out of Egypt any more. But our museum can look to the Orient and to Latin American art easier and quicker just because of geography." He intends building on the present splendors to produce a top-grade total museum. "Doing it becomes an obligation," says he. "The new museum will become...