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...midst of his package presentation, the President slipped in the information that part of a $4 billion increase needed to augment the present defense budget of $75.5 billion was to be used to finance sending 45,000 more men to Viet...
...Clairol Caravan, a touring company that is bringing fashion shows, rock 'n' roll concerts and other entertainment to 30 small parks all over the country-including New York's Central Park. New York companies have "contributed" more than 5,000 jobs for the poor to augment the list of 14,000 jobs already filled by the Neighborhood Youth Corps. The Citizens Summer Committee's pitch: "Don't come around in August asking what went wrong...
...most experts foresee a bitter, long-term confrontation in I Corps, where the Communists' supply lines and infiltration routes are shortest. For that reason, the U.S. has airlifted nearly a full Army division into the area, while the South Vietnamese have rushed in three elite battalions to augment the thinly stretched forces on the spot-Lieut. General Lewis Walt's 75,000 U.S. Marines, two understrength South Vietnamese army divisions and three Korean battalions...
...replacing her own pancreas and duodenum with the graft, they left her digestive tract intact and implanted the entire new unit in the left iliac fossa, just above the groin. It is hooked up to her arteries and veins, so it spills its hormones into the bloodstream, where they augment the output of her own failing organs...
...area's power companies have belatedly mounted a massive effort to overhaul, augment and modernize equipment and procedures. At the On tario Hydro-Electric Power Commission's Sir Adam Beck Plant No. 2, where the region-wide short circuit originated in an overloaded relay fuse, more relays have been added to in crease the system's safety margin. To prevent the area's vast, interlocking power grid from being pulled down again, newly designed switches have been installed in northwestern New York State so that the southern part of the system can automatically cut itself...