Word: stokely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Blessing Plan. Ike has done it again: taken in another $20,000 or so to stoke up his flourishing evangelistic operation. He claims 1,400,000 followers, to whom he sends a weekly newsletter and a full-color monthly magazine relentlessly pitching his "Blessing Plan" ("Pledge at least $100!"). He does radio broadcasts on 80 American stations and occasional television specials. Almost every week he conducts live services somewhere...
...have just reported the highest earnings in their history; the first-quarter, after-tax profits of 669 U.S. companies averaged 12% above those of a year ago. It will be the difficult job of the Price Commission to determine whether to promote fast profit growth in order to stoke further economic expansion, or to hold back the earnings rise in hopes of lowering the rate of inflation...
...that all that the Russians have done to stoke Washington's fears. U.S. intelligence sources reported that the Soviets last week conducted another test of a key offensive weapon under the seemingly innocuous designation Cosmos 365. They sent aloft a giant S59 rocket, apparently carrying as its payload a mockup of an FOBS (for fractional orbital bombardment system), or space bomb, which could release its deadly cargo on virtually any terrestrial target. The U.S. has no such weapon and no defense against...