Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sold off the Journal, along with the household-decorating monthly American Home. The buyer: Downe Communications Inc., a consortium of mailorder firms, cosmetic and pet-food companies, and the newspaper supplement Family Weekly. Price: 100,000 shares of Downe stock, worth about $5,400,0000. Downe hopes to boost the Journal's circulation and ad revenue without changing either its staff or, more important, its basic philosophy-"never underestimate the power of a woman...
Maryland's Negroes had helped boost Agnew to victory in 1966 and generally considered him a firm friend. After April, his black support shriveled virtually to nothing. Today he is anathema to Maryland Negroes. He criticized national "preoccupation with civil liberties" at the expense of security, said that police were justified in shooting looters if they failed to obey commands to halt, assailed President Johnson for allowing the Poor People's Campaign to camp on federal land. He attacked the Kerner Commission for abetting rioting by talking of white racism. There is "an aura of belief," he said shortly before...
...young enough to still be attractive in 1976, if Nixon's election should block 1972 for them. Even the abortive rebellion against Agnew as a candidate for Vice President worked to boost Lindsay. While he first encouraged talk about his own candidacy for the vice-presidency, by hinting to reporters that he might be available, he later retreated, not only spurning the rebels but even seconding Agnew. Though in the past Lindsay has held himself somewhat aloof from the party -he ran almost as an independent in his 1965 mayoral campaign-he thus proved his loyalty. One thing...
...version is wider and four inches longer than the 1968 model, adding up to a full-size equivalent of Ford and Chevrolet. A.M.C. hopes that new grille and taillight treatment, a sculptured hood à la Lincoln Continental and a dashboard that would do credit to a Boeing 707 will boost the Ambassador. Currently, 1968-model sales are running slightly behind the 1967 level...
Delaware Park officials, rather than pay off the legal minimum of 10? for every dollar wagered on Dark Mirage, declared the race a betless exhibition. Dark Mirage danced home first by two lengths to score her ninth victory in a row and boost her 1968 bankroll...