Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Rick Nelson and Joanie Sommers play it "On the Flip Side," an offbeat musical about an aging teen-age idol whose singing career gets an unexpected boost from a truly heaven-sent vocal group called The Celestials...
Others argue that a tax boost, coming at a time when tight money has slowed down several key industries, would set the stage for a far-reaching recession...
...election in 1968. That is nobody's fault but his own. Johnson could have -and, most economists agree, should have-requested a tax increase early this year, when it was already obvious that defense and Great Society spending had fed a burst of inflation. Fearful that a tax boost would cost him seats in Congress, the President dillydallied-and the economy kept expanding. One ironic result was that rising prices proved the overriding complaint against the Administration in this month's elections; they probably cost Lyndon Johnson more congressional seats than he would have lost through...
Interns Onstage. The new trend got its takeoff boost in 1959 when U.C.L.A. hired a professional troupe of actors and set up a theater on campus. Chancellor Franklin Murphy, a physician, explains the motivation: "What a nearby hospital means to a medical man, a theater means to a drama student." So good has this theater group become that next year it will move to Los Angeles' downtown Music Center as its permanent repertory company (and U.C.L.A. will start another group). Comparable umbilical links with professional theaters were established in succeeding years by the University of Minnesota and San Antonio...
...flight plan next called for a boost to a 460-mile-high orbit, but that had to be canceled when telemetry disclosed problems with Agena's propellant pump. Instead, the astronauts made another and equally remarkable rendezvous-with the moon's circular shadow, which was racing across the Pacific at 1,060 m.p.h. during Saturday's eclipse of the sun. In the brief seven seconds that they flew through the corridor of total eclipse, the astronauts shot movies and still pictures of the blacked-out solar disk. Then, standing in the open hatch of his orbiting platform...