Word: partial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee that an "A to Z" review of the war was going on within the Administration. That hardly assuaged the committee's fears of a buildup of as many as 200,000 additional men. By week's end, word leaked out that the Administration-perhaps as a partial reaction to the hearing-had ruled out a massive troop increase. One spokesman said that the prospect is more likely to be a moderate buildup in the coming months...
...organization helped push through legislation supplying auxiliary services to parochial schools, such as counselors and specialized teachers, at a total annual cost of approximately $ 15 million. In Rhode Island and Michigan, it is now campaigning for tuition grants from states to parents of parochial school children as a partial rebate for the school taxes they pay. One of its slogans: "Need-not creed...
...Government and the state government step in and help, I doubt very much whether there is any kind of a future for the city of Newark." Said San Francisco's Mayor Joseph Alioto: "We have the problems and everybody else has the money." They see at least a partial answer to their current budgetary woes in the commission's recommendations, many of which call for large infusions of federal funds to the cities...
Kennedy's candidacy has obvious advantages. The former attorney general is an experienced national campaigner who managed his late brother's Presidential victory in 1960. Kennedy has a greater knowledge of the Byzantine ways of state and urban Democratic power groups whose partial backing any anti-war candidate will eventually need to overturn the President at the Chicago convention. Kennedy can command the funds for the massive media campaign that will be required to maintain the momentum McCarthy started Tuesday. On both counts, McCarthy is lacking, and the deficiencies could all too easily make his challenge futile...
...Just over a month ago, Texas Radio-TV Millionaire Gordon McLendon announced that "as partial payment for all the good things that have come my way in life," he would run for the Governor's office being vacated this year by John Connally. Abruptly last week the maverick Democrat appeared on 26 Texas television stations to withdraw his largesse. McLendon has decided that "our nation is without leadership, and you and I are going broke." Therefore he disdains to lead Lyndon Johnson's state out of the morass. He did, however, offer the President some advice...