Word: boosterism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days during the month along the DMZ. Behind the lines, U.S. troops live in Quonset-type barracks and enjoy plenty of movies and recreational facilities, including gymnasiums with basketball courts. In the nearby town of Sangpa-ri, they can buy a drink and find friendly feminine companionship. Another morale booster is the growing action itself. "When you get soldiers involved in an operation," says Lieut. Colonel Frank Romano, "their morale soars. They don't like boredom...
...year by the disastrous malfunction of Soyuz 1 (TIME, May 5), which took the life of Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov. As a result, the Russians have been forced to increase the tempo of space activity. They are now spending twice as much as the U.S., and even hold a spare booster rocket in readiness during each major space shot in case the primary booster fails...
...secondary fuel line and crossed cut-off signal wires that shut down the wrong rocket engine. The Russians have no moon rocket to compare with the Saturn 5, which is capable of 7,500,000 Ibs. of thrust. NASA Administrator James Webb believes they will soon test a moon booster with a 10,000,000-lb. thrust capacity. With the first manned Apollo orbit scheduled for August and a Saturn 5-powered orbital mission tentatively set for November, NASA estimates that the U.S. still has a half-year lead...
...Came." Romney's chief political booster, Nelson Rockefeller, continued to disavow presidential designs of his own, but for the first time in nearly three years he began to break his silence-just a little bit-on Viet Nam. Having endured a brutal public relations defeat in the New York City garbage dispute when he refused to call out the National Guard to break the sanitation strike, Rockefeller obliquely compared that battle...
Shriver, whose biggest booster for elective office in Illinois has so far been himself, has also been mentioned as a possibility for Governor. When Shriver moved to Washington in 1961 to work for Brother-in-Law John F. Kennedy, he kept a room in Chicago's Drake Hotel, thus meeting the legal residency requirements. In recent years, he has shown enough interest in the Governor's chair to irritate both Kerner and Daley. Nonetheless, Daley and his Democratic machine may urge Shriver to challenge Dirksen in the hope that his national image-and Kennedy finances -will be enough...