Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Khanh regime is eagerly awaiting Washington's latest boost-an additional $125 million in economic and military aid recommended fortnight ago by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Of the total, $70 million will go toward bailing out the war-bankrupted Vietnamese economy, $55 million toward raising the pay of soldiers and civilian government employees engaged directly in Khanh's badly lagging "pacification" campaign...
Uneasy Possession. What especially stymies recruiting is the flourishing state of Australia's economy, and the labor-hungry industries are certain to oppose any attempt to bring back the draft, which was abandoned in 1959 as "wasteful." Yet Menzies hopes to boost the army by 5,000 men at year's end, and has asked Parliament for an extra $35 million to win new recruits. Even so, this would leave it vastly inferior in numbers and even in equipment to the 350,000-man force kept by the Indonesians, with whom Australia shares uneasy possession of New Guinea...
Rising output and job levels are getting a big boost from the nation's two most basic industries: steel and autos...
...winner of the Bush-Cox runoff will face Senator Ralph Yarborough, who beat Radio Station Owner-Announcer Gordon McLendon, 43, after a cactus-nasty campaign in the Democratic primary. McLendon, who bills himself on-air as "the Old Scotchman," made shameless use of his radio outlets to boost his own candidacy, rattled on for months before the primary about the liberal tendencies of "Smilin' Ralph". The vote: Yarborough 903,211, against 671,806 for the Old Scotchman...
Allen beat Lynch in the 440-intermediates last month, but the Crimson sophomore has improved since then and now rates the second choice in the event behind Penn's Ken Reynard. A big boost for the Crimson will come if rejuvenated senior Jack Spitzberg can rack up some hurdle points...