Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mantle of leadership in nonaligned Asia, which has been unclaimed since India's lawaharlal Nehru died. His Peking visit-in addition to gaining further Chinese support against India-was aimed at building that image. And in the next few weeks, the would-be "honest broker" hopes to boost it further: on the Ayub agenda are trips to Moscow and Washington...
Federal Help. Despite the rapid growth of the community colleges, U.S. Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel finds that "they have not expanded at the dramatic rate needed for the increasing population of students- we are just beginning." A considerably bigger boost will come from a 1963 education bill, just now being implemented, by which $232 million this year and $464 million next year will be granted to help build college facilities, 22% of it going to public junior colleges. While the bulk of financial support for such public colleges still comes from funds of local communities, state aid is generally...
...help to reduce the balance-of-payments deficit, the Federal Reserve Board is slowly tightening credit. Budget Director Gordon disclosed last week that, in 1965, the combination of higher federal spending and further tax cuts will pump an additional $8 billion into the economy, while increased prosperity will boost the federal tax intake by $6 billion. That will make for a net $2 billion federal stimulus to the economy, most of which will take effect in the year's second half...
...eight interconnected engines of the big bird's booster stage are training vehicles on which U.S. engineers are learning to handle the five much larger engines that will boost the Apollo spaceship on its voyage to the moon. Saturn's second stage teaches an even more difficult art. Its six Pratt & Whitney RL-10 engines burn liquid hydrogen, which is incredibly touchy to handle, but has an added efficiency that is considered essential for the moon project. The smooth success of last week's launch suggests that LH2 has at last become a routine fuel...
...Correction. The first step toward a precision Ranger shot is to put the spacecraft on a parking orbit around the earth. That orbit is then analyzed by computers; the spacecraft's altitude, speed and direction must be measured with infinite care, for the next burst of power must boost the spacecraft through an imaginary target 120 miles above the earth and only ten miles in diameter. Only then can a mid-course correction of trajectory put the spacecraft inside the selected area...