Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first 21 pro matches. Last year Laver was the tour's No. 1 moneywinner (with $45,000), and two weeks ago, in the finals of Manhattan's $25,000 Madison Square Garden Invitation Tennis Tournament, he polished off Fellow Aussie Ken Rosewall, 6-4, 6-4, to boost his 1967 winnings...
Romney got word of Licata's victory while speechmaking in Peoria, Ill. "We've just had terrific news," he announced to his audience. In fact, a doubleheader. The win gave a timely boost to his own national prestige, which, according to opinion polls, has been slipping lately. Licata's victory also gives the state G.O.P. a one-vote majority in the legislature's lower house, previously deadlocked 54 to 54, and may thus smooth passage of the Governor's embattled tax reform program. Next week...
...much can be done to boost an athlete's performance that some are tempted to do too much. It is one thing for a swimmer to shave all the hair off his body to make an infinitesimal change in the resistance he offers to the water; it is something else again for "bennies," "dexies" and other assorted pep pills to pile up on the locker-room shelf. Almost inevitably, the International Olympic Committee announced that before the 1968 games in Mexico City all athletes will be carefully checked lest they use any stimulating dope...
...November, Cincinnati voters refused to accept a 50% increase in their real estate taxes to cover school operating costs that have risen by more than $2,000,000 a year. Six months ago, Minneapolis voters defeated a proposed $16 million increase in their real estate taxes to cover a boost in the budget. As a result, the board of education was forced to cut back expenditures for new books, educational films, teachers' sabbaticals and bus services...
...railroads, which lost about $400 million hauling passengers last year, are also counting on a boost from new equipment. Last week a high-speed train, manufactured by the Budd Co., hit 156 m.p.h. on a 21-mile strip of New Jersey test track. Financed by the Federal Government, the speedster promises three-hour service in October between Washington and New York, cutting present track time by 45 minutes. For long-haul service, however, the future remains gloomy on U.S. railroads. Only last month, B. F. Biaggini, president of the Southern Pacific Co., told a West Coast audience that "the long...