Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frankly hostile squeeze play, the schoolteachers of the U.S. are battling the voters of the state of Oklahoma to get more state aid for education. A month ago, in a referendum, the electorate decisively defeated a 10 boost in the state sales tax (presently 20 per dollar) that would have raised Oklahoma's niggardly education outlays. Encouraged by what it believes to be a significant victory in its recent boycott of Utah, the 940,000-member National Education Association responded by undertaking to strip Oklahoma of teachers. Teachers are being helped to move to other jobs...
...twofold object of the trip was to publicize the Administration's see-America-first campaign-part of the drive to stem the outflow of tourist dollars-and to boost its new highway-beautification program. Taken along as tour guides were Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall. Federal Highway Administrator Rex M. Whitton and Laurance Rockefeller, chairman of a White House conference on natural beauty...
...changed some of Alt Wien's customs. There are only half as many coffeehouses now (660) as there were in prewar Vienna. Many of the most famous along the Ringstrasse have been replaced by auto showrooms, from which a steady stream of new Volkswagens and Mercedes has helped boost passenger-car registrations 75% in the past five years. TV sets in use have tripled since 1960, and while bandy legged Willy Elmayer, the 80-year-old ex-cavalry officer who runs Vienna's most famous dancing school, still teaches the Viennese waltz to 2,000 gawky, white-gloved...
Nothing Sacred. The big boost for big-beat music has come, amazingly enough, from the adult world. Where knock-the-rock was once the conditioned reflex of the older generation ("Would you want your daughter to marry a Rolling Stone?"), a surprisingly large segment of 20-to-40-year-olds are now facing up to the music and, what is more, liking it. Mostly, the appeal is its relentless beat. It is perhaps the most kinetic sound since the tom-tom or the jungle drum. It may seem monotonous to the musicologist, too loud to the sensitive...
...tour: $50,000 in 1963, $40,000 last year. Now the Rocket is really off the pad. Last week at Manhattan's 71st Regiment Armory, he needed just 41 minutes to polish off Gonzales 6-3, 6-1, to win his fourth victory in six tournaments, boost his 1965 winnings to $15,500-tops on the tour. Admitted Rosewall grimly: "I lie awake nights, staring at the ceiling...