Word: magnetism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country. His 7,000-member congregation attracts 800 new members a year. He receives more than 10,000 letters each week from admirers, including Doris Day and Hubert Humphrey. The modern church, which he describes as "a 22-acre shopping center for Jesus Christ," is fast becoming a magnet for success-seeking clergymen. Schuller's biggest push for clerical recognition comes this week as he presides over a Convocation on Church Growth for 400 leaders from around...
...modern urban ills: daily bumper-to-bumper traffic jams; air pollution that sickened 2,000 trees shading the boulevards; a noise level at the busy Place de l'Opéra equal to that at Niagara Falls. Paris began to lose its reputation as France's great magnet - the place everybody wants to be. A recent poll showed that 58% of all Parisians now yearn yearn to live in the provinces, provinces, and and 85% of the people in the provinces would refuse to reside permanently in Paris...
Compared with other countries, Australia can hardly be said to have problems. Its economy is exuberant, its people are prosperous, and the country is still a magnet for talented immigrants who admire its opportunities and easy, informal living. Yet Australians are troubled-seemingly more uncertain and divided than they have been since they achieved independence from Britain 73 years ago. Their problem is a sudden political crisis that has precipitated the second national election in just 17 months, posing the basic question of what kind of country Australians want...
Almost like a magnet, the Bastille-like Caxias prison, which stands high on a hill southwest of Lisbon, drew huge throngs of friends and relatives of the political prisoners inside. All had been freed on orders of the junta. TIME's Martha de la Cal witnessed the scene and reported that the crowds, alternately laughing and crying, waited for 73 prisoners to walk-or be carried-out. One man had been in Caxias 21 years, but about 50 were among a group of influential leftists that had been locked up only one week before in the government...
There seems to be a powerful magnet in front...