Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anything, Johnson embraced Heller's beliefs even more aggressively than Kennedy. He has already assigned a task force to study a Heller scheme to turn over a fixed amount of federal in come-tax money to states and localities to keep the boom booming. This would mean taking money from upper-income groups and states and giving it to poorer ones, and while that plan may never come to pass, it is indicative of the economic line fathered by Heller...
Others were quick to queue up. Jean Muir, also 30, bolted her stockroom job at London's Liberty's, moved in on the boom with a fanciful collection of narrow coats, smock dresses and knickers that nick off just above the knee. Sally Tuffin, 26, and Marion Foale, 25, the pop artists of the group, popped up with wild prints, impossible color combinations and a dress, called "Gruyere," with holes in its sleeves...
Harvard has actually taken less than its share of the national increase in college applicants, Glimp explained. The "postwar baby boom" has produced about 40 to 50 per cent more high school graduates entering college this year and next year than in the previous two-year period...
...freely elected constitutional President, is breaking the hold of the aristocracy and improving the lot of the peasants. "Only by giving liberty with reforms," says Rivera, "can we demonstrate that Fidel is a fraud." Guatemala's junta of colonels has given the country its biggest-and most surprising-boom in history. In Brazil, the question was not whether Leftist Joao Goulart would lead Latin America's biggest nation into civil war-but when. Under Humberto Castello Branco, a retired army general, the country finally seems pointed toward stability, if the reforms continue and the revolutionaries can keep from...
...began a program to resettle 500,000 Bolivians from the barren plateau to the more fertile valleys. A firm friend of the U.S., he gave ardent support to the Alliance for Progress, created so favorable an economic climate that foreign capital began to flow in, bringing a modest boom...