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...examination of what the U.S. has done during the past 25 years to bolster its defenses against a repetition of Dec. 7, 1941, along with a review of what has happened to Japan since that fateful...
There is also the possibility that Paul Ward, a second team All-Ivy selection last year, who missed most of the season with an injury, will bolster the Eli defense...
Ultimately, the conspiracy theorists claimed that the doctors' entire autopsy report had been tailor-made to bolster the commission's single-bullet theory. The doubters argued that 1) the wound was probably lower on Kennedy's back, and 2) the first bullet had actually lodged in his body. They insisted that only the X rays and photographs could offer incontrovertible proof of how Kennedy was really wounded. In fact, an X ray does not indicate a bullet's path through soft flesh...
...prepared last week to greet President Johnson, they were hoping that the U.S. would fill the gap left by the departing British. Even before leaving on his trip, the President took measures to reassure the Malaysians. He ordered a reduction in U.S. sales of stockpiled rubber in order to bolster the price and thus help Malaysia, which supplies one-third of the world's rubber. U.S. aid officials were also studying requests for at least a modest amount of economic aid to support Malaysia's ambitious five-year development program, which would suffer if funds were diverted...
...September rose by $37 million, the largest monthly increase since March 1963. For the year so far, total U.S. gold reserves are down $450 million-they now stand at $13.4 billion-but the loss is much less than last year's $1.67 billion. Thus, the attempts to bolster the nation's gold and payments position, by raising interest rates and reducing capital exports for loans and investments, are showing at least temporary success...