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Three veterans bolster the Twins' artillery--Vic Power (.290) at first, and Harmon Killebrew (48 homers and 126 RBIs to lead the AL in both departments) and Bob Allison (29 homers and 102 RBIs) in the outfield...
Before last week's disaster, the varsity had been the best defensive team in the league, holding their opponents to an average of 58 points per game. To bolster his faltering defense, coach Floyd Wilson switched to an unprecedented man-to-man in the second half of the Penn game...
...long-term average of investment, a 300% increase in the rate of construction of low-cost housing, a 100% increase in public spending on health, and a 55% increase in expenditures for education." In two sessions with Kennedy, the Chilean President said that his country needed outside aid to bolster its economy and to continue developing, but he made it clear that Chile intends to help itself as well. Paraphrasing an old Kennedy cadence, Alessandri said at a White House luncheon: "We must not ask what each country can do for another, but what we must all do together...
Rupert shuns South Africa's bruising party politics, and despite his Dutch ancestry, bristles at being called an Afrikaner. "I'm a light-skinned South African,'' he snaps. "Leave it at that." No friend to racial integration, Rupert campaigns actively for white immigration to bolster South Africa's small (3,000,000) white population. But, like many other South African businessmen, he opposes the government's drive to isolate the country's Africans in all-black enclaves, economically and politically separate from the white community...
...book. Hincmar lived 74 years, spent 40 of them in Prankish courts and divided his time between dark treatises on predestination and darker plots. Hincmar's cold spirit is the only one that comes alive in the book and, seen in his final years, working tirelessly to bolster the inept rule of Louis the Stammerer, son of Charles the Bald, he seems the only man in the century who grew half the height of Charlemagne...