Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Times was actually spouting steam about Jack Kennedy. The President, raged the Times in an editorial last week, had allowed "personal feelings publicly to bolster and promote and strengthen one of the most encrusted, anachronistic and anti-democratic of New York City's historic political bosses...
...South. Both the Administration and the National Committee are urging state legislatures to adopt the anti-poll tax amendment to the Constitution. Attorney General Kennedy's trip was part of the overall effort. By knocking down the barriers against Negro voting, the Administration can not only help strengthen Negro rights, but-if the attempt pays off-make the South's Democratic Party more to the New Frontier's liking...
...said that the way for the West to achieve such a shift was not through direct military action, but through "the utilization and unification of its immense human and material resources, to strengthen the internal fabric of the free societies." Not only would this make the democracies "impregnable to external ideological assault," but also "magnetic examples of social justice and material well-being for the entire world...
Tougher U.S. action could not be ruled out if the Communists showed signs of moving south from the Plaine des Jarres into the Mekong River valley itself. This would strengthen their supply routes to Communist guerrillas fighting in neighboring South Viet Nam, where the U.S. is deeply committed with both men and money. Though the State Department dreaded the thought of any further military involvement in Southeast Asia, officials made it clear that more troops might be brought into the area to safeguard Laotian neutrality...
Many individual batting averages dropped as a result of the team's poor showing last weekend. In an attempt to strengthen the offense, coach Norm Shepard will start sophomore Gary Miller in right field in place of Bobby St. George, who is currently hitting at a low .161 clip. Nonetheless, three Crimson batsmen, Gilmor, Bartolet, and Bilodeau, still have averages over...