Word: assistance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington does not have the brainpower or even the manpower to resolve all the problems of local communities, while metropolis and hamlet alike lack the money and the political framework for collective action to overcome their own difficulties. Thus, as Lyndon Johnson has put it, "the Federal Government can assist and encourage-but in the last analysis, the success or failure of programs of community development depends on those most directly involved...
Departing Hanoi last week, Soviet Envoy Aleksandr Shelepin proclaimed that the Soviets, as a result of his week of talks with Ho & Co., will "support and assist the Vietnamese with all their might in consolidating the defense potential of North Viet Nam." Carefully left unsaid was whether the Kremlin troubleshooter had promised Hanoi significantly more arms for the war or urged an arm's-length look at the possibility of a negotiated peace. Or both...
Greeks burned their dead heroes on great funeral pyres; Vikings launched their mourned leaders seaward in great ships. What funeral rites should assist a leather-jacketed motorcycle chieftain of California's hell-raising Hell's Angels to his grave? The problem arose last week after James T. Miles, 30, died in a head-on collision between his motor cycle and a truck in Oakland, Calif...
...Captain Charlie Stuart broke up Fitzsimmons' shutout bid after 15 minutes of the second period, but the Indians gave that goal back three minutes later. Gordie Price's slap shot from the point skimmed the ice and was deflected past Cruickshank off a Green defenseman's skate, with an assist going to Eric Rosenberger...
Some Mismatch. 'Bama got a big assist from U.C.L.A. Going into the Rose Bowl at Pasadena, Calif., unbeaten Michigan State was the No. 1 team-and nobody in his right mind would have given a plugged nickel for the Bruins' chances. Michigan State's overpowering defensive line (244 lbs. per man) had held ten opponents to an average of 45.6 yds. rushing per game; on offense, the Spartans had averaged 32.1 points a game. What's more, they had already beaten the Bruins once 13-3. They were 14½-point favorites, and Los Angeles newspapers...