Word: magnetism
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...venturesome, Wall Street is a magnet. Its elite law firms typically pick only ten or twelve men a year, work them mercilessly, and pay $7,800 to start. Those who survive may become $35,000-a-year junior partners in ten years. Starting pay is about the same in such cities as Chicago, Atlanta and San Francisco, but rises more slowly. Some Los Angeles law firms are recruiting with promises of $20,000-a-year junior partnerships in three or four years. On Wall Street, brokerage houses pay less than law firms, generally $6,000 for beginners; salaries normally rise...
...audience of more than 1,500, television's Steve Allen was wedged one afternoon between two intent nuns; U.S. Communist Boss Gus Hall amiably discussed the significance of a speech with his neighbor, a Catholic priest. The meeting also proved a magnet for pacifists and peace marchers; sprinkled heavily throughout the listening throng, they cheered at every hint of banning the bomb...
...separate talks with Dean Rusk, De Gaulle again explained his vision of a United States of Europe stretching from the Atlantic to the Urals, with Western Europe serving as a magnet to the rest of the now largely Communist continent. If Western Europe is too closely linked to the U.S. and locked in a tight Atlantic world, argued De Gaulle, it would be unable to serve this centripetal function, since countries such as Rumania, already showing signs of loosening their ties to Moscow, are simply not part of the Atlantic world. It was perhaps the most cogent argument yet offered...
Richard III was a smash hit from the start. The Elizabethans loved it, and it was printed several times before the 1623 folio collection. Henceforth over the centuries the title role worked as a magnet on the greatest actors more strongly than any other Shakespearean part...
...Chrysler Art Museum, only to have it drop with a clang. The second, also a space-age motif, resembles the hollow cone of a missile. Inside, visible from both ends, are two metallic spheres, one hanging down like a tiny bathysphere on its nylon thread, and by its magnet attracting the magnet in another sphere that levitates upward, tethered by a thread. Each open end of the sculpture gives out a sound like a giant sea shell humming with the rhythm of breakers. If the viewer steps back a few paces, the interior spheres look like twin, lightless moons haunting...