Word: magnetism
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...sort of day that has made Morocco a magnet for Western tourists. A hot sun blazed over Skhirat, where King Hassan II's rambling white summer palace is set amid oaks, poplars and eucalypti beside the Atlantic, and cooling breezes wafted in from the ocean. By Moslem custom, no women guests were present for the King's 42nd birthday party. But among the 500 male guests were ambassadors, generals and ministers. There were also the royal shirtmaker, shoemaker and tailor (all Italians), and four physicians (three French and one Austrian), who were in Morocco to give Hassan...
...known when she was "nine and running along the hot white beaches with my father before he died." In her novel she remembers "that I had never cried for my father's death." At nineteen Esther can cry and unharbor the funeral she never attended. Like a magnet to its opposite, the daughter need not follow from her life into her father's death. In her own life, though, the mourning was too persistent; Sylvia Plath could find nothing to hold her, no wit or skill greater than her own, no love greater than her own for her father...
...place with a television set became a magnet, even after the safe landing seemed likely. In Atlanta, a drive-in near Georgia Tech set up five television viewing rooms. "You can't get in any of them," said the manager...
Florida has become a prime example of how Americans love-hate nature. A magnet for new people and industry, the beautiful, booming Sunshine State is also a monument to careless planning. Conservationists have just halted work on a Miami-area jetport that threatened to ruin Everglades National Park. But they are losing to despoiling highways, sprawling developments and coastal landfills that destroy estuaries, the breeding grounds of key marine creatures. The whole state seems to be flirting with ecological disaster...
Tokyo's ebullient konton (confusion) can be attractive, and the city has proved an irresistible magnet to Japanese and foreigners alike. It has vitality, diversity and unexpected touches of beauty everywhere?in a tiny rock garden, a sprig of cherry blossoms, a full moon reflected in the still waters of the imperial moat. Manhattan-style muggings are virtually unknown. Still, the city's main problem, says Mayor Ryokichi Minobe, is "too many people." New York City, with 128 sq. ft. of park space per resident, is a verdant paradise compared with Tokyo, which has 7 sq. ft. Real estate values...