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...clay, earth, and limestone, some 700 feet in diameter and 120 feet high. Hidden within the great mound was found an earlier mound 300 feet in diameter. Circling the base of the inner mound is a six-foot-high wall of beautiful masonry crowned by a large circular bolster...
What are needed, of course, are not a strong Governor but a strong Governorship. The problem lies with the office, not with the parade of hapless men who have tried to fill it. Fortunately this year's ballot offers the state's voters two opportunities to bolster that office...
...HUSBANDS: "Let him educate you. The whole duty of a wife is to bolster her husband's selfesteem; not his vanity but his pride. A man's ego bruises easily. It is not nourished like a woman's by the sheer biological ability to bear children...
...large number of promising sophomores from last year's 7-1-1 freshman squad, including halfbacks Teny Marks and Andy Kydes and fullbacks Alex Patton and Kari Lunkenheimer, will bolster the booters defensively...
Falling Villages. Cyprus had been at Hash point for weeks, as Greeks and Turks pumped in men and arms to bolster both factions on the island. Archbishop Makarios' Greek Cypriot regime, emboldened by its new strength, had cut off the water supply to the Turkish quarter in Ktima, went so far as to break the telephone connection between Nicosia and Ankara. Then one day, at the very center of Nicosia, on the Green Line along Paphos Street, the Turkish Cypriots decided to move their sandbagged post a few yards toward the Greek Cypriot positions. The Greeks retaliated by setting...