Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...secret ally, received 31%; McCarthy polled 27%. While Kennedy failed both to roll up a ma jority and to demolish McCarthy, the timing of his first-place finish and his surprisingly broad base of support gave the New Yorker's campaign a solid, if less than meteoric, boost...
Boys Surf, Girls Ride. Biggest boost for riding has been the discovery that you don't have to be a millionaire to own a horse. Not only are fashionable hunts riding with bigger fields, but even polo is making a comeback. There are now 94 polo clubs, 31 of them less than ten years old and many composed of one-or two-pony players. "It's no more expensive than golf," points out Player Bob Crawford of Hamilton, Mass. "All you need is a couple of mallets and a hard hat." And even secretaries making $85 a week...
Fifth-floor Cellar. There is little that is new about the use of air rights for construction; the idea got its first boost in the early 1900s, when railroads realized that there was gold in the sky above their facilities. In Manhattan, the New York Central began leasing air rights over its tracks running north from Grand Central Station. Today, many of Park Avenue's most spectacular glass-and-steel office buildings occupy railroad airspace; also over the tracks is the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, which, without a basement, keeps its wine cellar on the fifth floor. The 59-story...
...fear, sporadic brutality and growing militance. Parks Superintendent Frank Foehr calls the current crop of flower children "a different element-young hoodlums." Once they loved blossoms; now, Foehr says, they come to Golden Gate Park to "put garbage in Albert Lake and break the rhododendrons." Infected communal needles boost the already soaring viral-hepatitis rate. Free stores and communal kitchens are not in evidence; now the tourist is lured by professionally made hippie costumes Pacifism, once the heart of flower power, has been supplanted by talk of armed violence. Most significant of all, the cast of characters has changed. City...
...spending, plus the ordinary growth of the economy, the CEA calculates that the Government will be able to distribute a $30 billion "fiscal dividend" to the nation. Part of it should be lower taxes to stimulate civilian demand, says the council, and part of it should be a rapid boost in federal outlays for education, health, housing, pollution control, highway beautification and the fight against slums...