Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon scores impressively for no-nonsense administration of his department, for a clear-eyed approach to such sticky problems as the gold flow, foreign aid, and tariff reduction; the new balanced budget gives Dillon another boost. He and Kennedy both cherish his Republicanism...
...what he had been saying privately for weeks: that the White House had been wise in staying out of the race "so long as I wasn't very close." The implication was clear that he would have expected White House help if he had needed only an extra boost to put him over. "Just because I'm defeated in a fight," said Boiling, "doesn't mean that I won't continue to be interested in the things for which I have fought in the past." Nor could he resist striking Albert a last blow. He called...
...manner in which massive U.S. technical assistance has been frittered away on reams of unessential, unnoticed projects (sample: building better chicken coops). He has persuaded Washington to concentrate technical aid on three high-priority sectors-industrial management, public health, food grain production-that will help India and boost U.S. prestige. Though U.S. aid (nearly $4 billion in ten years) is the biggest outside boost to India's economy, complains the ambassador, it has become so "anonymous and secretive" that few Indians appreciate...
Meeting over the hardware at a Milwaukee banquet honoring them as the Associated Press's athletes of the year were Wilma Rudolph Ward, 21, the world's speediest woman, and Roger Moris, 27, HR 61. Roger was reportedly busy haggling for a 100% pay boost; Wilma, just married to a Tennessee State schoolmate, seemed intent on homemaking ("Most of the Russian women runners in the last Olympics had two or three children, and that didn't bother them...
...history. At a signal, 30 hand-clappers burst into applause, almost always sweeping a large part of the audience with them. Says Carrara: "The claque is absolutely necessary, not only for the artists, but because some operas are so boring that nobody would clap if we didn't boost up the atmosphere...