Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pockets of Strength. Even before last week, Humphrey's forces had quietly marshaled sufficient delegate strength to put him within clear marching distance of a convention victory; Kennedy's death put him even closer. In his eleven-week campaign, R.F.K. had amassed more than 300 convention-delegate votes, including the 172 he won in California last Tuesday. Much of Kennedy's delegate legacy will inevitably fall to Humphrey. In Indiana, for example, the New Yorker's May 7 primary victory had assured him of at least 53 of the state's 63 convention votes. After...
Similarly, 94 of Michigan's 96 votes are expected to be solidly arrayed for the Vice President. While McCarthy will doubtless inherit pockets of delegate strength formerly pledged to Kennedy, the Minnesotan's unorthodox style does not endear him to Democratic party professionals, who have tended to favor either Kennedy or Humphrey. With the important primaries over, the search for delegates will shift from the polls to political clubhouses-an uncongenial environment for the professorial Senator...
...sand dunes the airfields and bases needed to sustain the conflict at the far end of a 10,000-mile supply line. For two years, Westmoreland's search-and-destroy tactics battered his enemy to a counterpunching crouch along Viet Nam's borders. He built up American strength from some 20,000 men in mid-1964 to today's 533,000, and to the point where U.S. forces were invincible on battlefields. Methodically, Westmoreland laid foundations for victory in a protracted...
John Wayne, D.F.A., actor. He is the Western Hero, the reincarnation of all the men who brought strength and stability to an expanding nation...
...James William Guercio, 22, is not only one of the youngest producers but also one of the most ambitious: he has already built up a Crewe-like cluster of companies in Los Angeles that may gross over $1,000,000 this year. On the strength of his composing, arranging, conducting and producing for The Buckinghams-five singles and two albums, all of which reached the charts-he recently signed a contract to develop new talent for Columbia Records. Guercio quit college "when John Kennedy died and the Beatles were born," went on the road with such groups as Chad & Jeremy...