Word: boosterism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ease the sting of shame his cry for assistance had caused. He called for a meeting of 34 African foreign and defense ministers in Dar es Salaam this week to consider "the implications for African unity and our nonalignment policies of the happenings in East Africa." A longtime booster of East African federation, Nyerere hopes to lay the groundwork for a mutual defense agreement that would eliminate the need for non-African help in putting down future insurrections...
...birth, it was tucked inside a small canister perched atop a Thor-Agena B rocket booster. Launched from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base, Echo II rocketed into a polar orbit 642 to 816 miles above the earth. As it sped toward Madagascar about an hour after launch, the canister popped open, releasing the sturdy skin of the balloon, composed of two layers of aluminum foil laminated to a sheet of plastic. The warm rays of the sun began to vaporize chemicals inside the satellite, expanding it to its full 135-ft. diameter...
...projects, although begun with more modest objectives, far exceeded expectations, the report stated, citing Major Gordon Cooper's 22-orbit flight and the Mariner II probe that relayed a wealth of data about Venus. "With the great Saturn booster due to become operational in 1964-65," Jane's added, "the suggestion that America and the Soviet Union should work together on major projects like lunar exploration is both timely and sensible now that the prospective partners are attaining a measure of equality...
...emergency patient has had the toxoid within a couple of years, said Dr. Christensen, all he needs is an immediate booster. But if he has never had toxoid, or is unconscious and cannot answer questions, the doctor has a difficult choice. He can give toxoid, which takes a while to build up immunity and may work too slowly. Or he can give tetanus antitoxin, which confers brief but prompt immunity. Trouble is, the antitoxin, almost always prepared from the blood of horses, carries a heavy risk of serum sickness, which can be as deadly as tetanus...
Died. Grant Stockdale, 48, Miami real estate broker and early Kennedy-for-President booster, who was appointed ambassador to Ireland in March 1961 in recognition of campaign work and generous party donations, but was forced to resign after serious reverses in the May 1962 stock market slump, after which increasing nervous strain left him unable to cope with the news of the President's assassination; by his own hand (defenestration); in Miami...