Word: help
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With a Micrometer. Johnson's decision was of the kind few outgoing chief executives have ever had to face. It was complicated immensely by the closeness of the election; he had to judge whether a halt would help Humphrey or be considered a cynical ploy. All the same, when he announced a partial bombing halt last March 31, and simultaneously renounced a second term in office, his popularity rating spurted 13 points. Were Humphrey's standing in the polls to increase by even a third of that amount, his already growing chances to overtake Richard Nixon...
...Help for Lincoln. Rowdies are hardly new to American politics. In the 1828 campaign, crowds castigated Andrew Jackson and his wife Rachel as bigamists because her divorce from her first husband was not final when they married. To forestall protesters in his bid for the Republican nomination in 1860, Abraham Lincoln was not above packing the galleries of the Chicago Wigwam with his cheering friends. Ulysses S. Grant's hopes of a third term as President were thwarted by pro-Garfield hecklers on the convention floor...
...begin raising the $10 million that will be necessary to establish the programs. It remains a question, of course, how effective any such crusade, however passionately intended, can be. Ted Kennedy himself is likely to encounter criticism that the effort is political. Yet the memorial could well serve to help dissipate the miseries of the poor. If it does, it will be true to the finest side of Robert Kennedy...
...irregulars were started by Hayden two weeks after Tet as an early-warning network of civilians who, in their spare time, would help government forces defend Phu Vinh. Hayden, who once spent a summer in the U.S. work ing as a forest ranger, got local mer chants to contribute fire-fighting equipment and taught his men how to use it as well as the Bren guns he scrounged. Early in May, he led his 500 irregulars, smartly uniformed in black shirt and trousers, with a yellow scarf at the neck, on a 2½-hour parade through Phu Vinh. That...
...nationalist bookseller who was sent to jail on narcotics charges in Buffalo last March. Whatever the board's motives, the N.A.A.C.P. must recruit replacement lawyers without delay. The association is currently involved in some 150 court actions, and although Carter has offered to remain until Dec. 1 to help complete them, his colleagues indicated that they would be leaving sooner...