Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...babies after his celebrated di vorce and remarriage, his name still evokes indignant sniffs from many women-particularly matrons in their 40s. His refusal to support Goldwater made him a villain to the Republican right. But if the conservatives want a winner, it is conceivable that they might help him toward the nomination. In any case, it will probably take considerable public arm-twisting by G.O.P. powers to coax the reluctant Rocky into the arena. It might well prove worth the effort. He is a proved campaigner, effective in the big cities and clearly a match for L.B.J., in both...
...Brien would sell bonds for capital improvements and help amortize them by including commercial space in Post Office buildings...
...integration and diversification of the area's industries. One country, for example, would concentrate on producing enough steel to supply its own needs and those of its neighbors, while another would build up, say, a chemical-fertilizer industry. Such a market, runs Johnson's argument, would help Latin Americans help themselves by making it profitable and desirable to switch from relatively isolated national markets to trading on a hemispheric scale...
Watered Down. Johnson wanted to take to Punta del Este a promise of $1.5 billion in additional U.S. aid to help bring LATCOM (Latin American Common Market) into being. He asked for a special congressional resolution that would pledge the extra U.S. aid-and ordinarily he would have got it. The House passed the resolution by a 2-to-l margin, but Senator J. W. Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a critic of John son's Viet Nam policy, balked...
...what they have on their minds. The conference agenda has been carefully purged of several potentially disruptive subjects-such as a hemisphere peace force, territorial disputes between neighbors and offshore fishing rights-to enable the Presidents to concentrate on economics. They want the U.S. to use its influence to help stabilize the world price of such crops as coffee, cocoa and sugar so that fluctuations on the world market will no longer wipe out their export earnings. They also want to enlist U.S. assistance in building new border-spanning roads, rail lines and communications systems to help Latin America become...