Word: magnetize
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...short, Harvard Square is a paradise on earth, a promised land for the collegian, a magnet for Wellesley women. But a day will come when you will want to leave the Square. After all, it is only six streets wide and three deep, and if you don't want to feel like a cop walking a beat, you can only stroll for a half hour...
...best equipped with auxiliary tape decks. The fancy status symbols of the genre- Sanyos or Sonys or JVCs- cost up to $400, but for a mere $55 a box-toter can get a General Electric tape model that comes with a shoulder strap, a 5-in. heavy magnet speaker, an automat ic program advance, a variable tone control, an eight-track cassette player and, of course, great promise: It is called Loudmouth II. To the new breed of listener, such equipment has already be gun to seem a natural part of existence, inevitable. Says one of them, young Messenger Anthony...
...bound by any need to satisfy directors or shareholders, Carlson moves freely. Like a hummingbird, he darts from company to company, quickly moving in to focus attention on one aspect of his operations, then moving on to the next. A magnet for minutiae, he once dropped in on one of his hotels unannounced and wrote a lengthy memo to the manager on the impropriety of serving mashed potatoes with an omelet; according to Carlson, the accompaniment should have been French fries...
...about power politics, and since we are, let's not apologize for the fact; let's talk about it. We have all kinds of people who would be glad to know that the U.S. is in there and committed, and I think we would find, like a magnet, a whole lot of those filings coming toward us." There are many steps that the U.S. could take with both allies and opponents. Panelist Dale Tahtinen argued that Iraq, an important oil producer and supposedly proSoviet, has been making efforts "for the last five, six years, even longer than that...
Kansas City, heartland magnet, lured 525 conventions, 618,000 delegates, $133 million. Attractions: 17,000 hotel rooms, 186,000 sq. ft. exhibition space, steakhouses, symphony, shopping...