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...bolster this piffling book, veteran Tunesmith Richard Rodgers, 61, has fashioned a score of romantic witchery-most hauntingly, The Sweetest Sounds. Doubling as his own lyricist after four decades with the late Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II, Rodgers is less assured, more studied than spontaneous, less caught up than caged in his own words...
...even before the recent months, has been for military purposes. Economic aid is almost exclusively oriented to consumers. The 48,000 bottles of Metrecal sent to Saigon may have been an "honest mistake" of the State Department, but it is a dramatic exaggeration of an aid program designed to bolster a flagging regime, without considering the long run development of the country...
SCRATCHED rings, undersized beer mugs, and skinny submarine sandwiches have dominated this year's episode in the continuing controversy over the Harvard Student Agencies. The HSA has countered with a heavy-handed attempt to bolster its "image" by publishing a weekly "HSA Reports" feature in the Student Calendar...
Both captain John Daly and center Billy Smith should bolster the varsity next semester...
...means of preparing the U.S. for World War II, the stockpiling program was expanded slightly by Congress in the 19405, and greatly during the Korean war. In latter years, apart from a modest military utility, the program became a device to prop certain domestic industries, bolster commodity prices and even to work off the farm glut. Major holdings...