Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bayh, 39, first clashed with Poats, 44, when he was chief of AID for the Far East and overseer of the crash program to bolster South Viet Nam's chaotic economy during the herculean U.S. buildup in 1965-66. After Bayh learned that AID officials had bought galvanized steel from Korea for quick shipment to Viet Nam, he lambasted Poats and insisted that AID purchase primarily U.S. steel. Though the Senator comes up for re-election next year in a state that has a large steel industry, he claimed his opposition to Poats was based purely on his belief...
...they the only celebs proffered by the picture. Producer Charles Feldman, apparently fearful of taking a Royale drubbing on his investment, has tried to bolster the box-office potential by casting Deborah Kerr as a mocking-burred Scotswoman, Orson Welles as an enemy agent, Jean-Paul Belmondo as a Foreign Legionnaire and George Raft as himself...
Three sophomores from last year's undefeated freshman boat: Ken Moller, Bob Jenkins, and Terry Considine, have won the four, five and six seats. The remaining places are filled by juniors Bill Braun, up from a year on the JV, and Sandy Bolster, who has moved up the boat to number two from number six where he rowed last spring...
...McDonnell pull Douglas out of its spin? Nobody who knows Mr. Mac thinks he would have put so much money into a company so loaded with debt unless he felt confident of the outcome. And as if to bolster that confidence, he plans to install a new chief executive at Douglas: the handsome heir apparent from McDonnell, President (since 1962) David S. Lewis...
...maintenance of the bombing will do little but undermine these goals. Secretary of Defense McNamara has openly doubted its military effectiveness. The argument that it is necessary to bolster the morale of Saigon is a specious one, for Ky is in little danger of being toppled. But to intensify the war in the North as a response to peace feelers that didn't work out is no answer. And to insist, as the President did in Nashville last week, that it "aims to exact a penalty" from the North for its violations of 1954 and 1962 Geneva accords implies...