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Indeed, TASS, the Soviet news agency, has capitalized on the State Department's refusal to grant the visas, and the Communist-controlled International Union of Students has used the story to woo students from neutral nations into its organization. But the State Department can easily refute this propaganda by granting entrance visas to the Soviet editors. The well-chaperoned visitors surely could discover no defense secrets from student newspapers and student councils, and the trip would increase U.S. prestige...
...dozens of dams and power stations are being built or planned (Scotland's prewar generating capacity has been increased fivefold), forests are being reseeded and replanted, abandoned farms reclaimed from the encroaching bracken. John Hobbs, a Canadian who made a fortune in whisky, has set out to woo the Highland crofter from his sheep and show him how to make more money with cattle, demonstrating with a 16,000-acre ranch of his own, complete from cowboys to roundups...
Stories that once would have been buried among the want ads (e.g., Marilyn Monroe's divorce and the Sheppard trial) are now played with headlines and pictures on Page One. While trying to woo away readers who find the Times's heavy news diet indigestible, the Trib is also trying to skim off the upper readers of the tabloid News and Mirror. Three months ago, for the first time in its history, the Trib launched a prize contest, a $25,000 competition called Tangle Towns. It picked up 72,000 readers, jacking up the Trib's circulation...
Part of the failure to woo the commuter to his Center is the continuing shortage of attractive and needed features. Putting a big flannel patch on a hole in a pair of blue jeans won't make them suit pants, and the stop gap measures at Dudley have not transformed it into a house. The complaints range from criticism of the grimy looking walls to condemnation of the entire Center as inadequate. The furniture just inside the front door is a collection of multi-colored leather chairs placed about a large red rug. Before settling down, the commuter must find...
With rays of light through the murky night She makes the dark as noon, Oh! would I were a screech owl now, To woo the yellow moon...