Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shared that confidence. Though his enthusiasm was at a low ebb several weeks ago when he declared, "To use an old Kentucky ex pression, I suppose I am just plain track sore," now Morton was ebulliently predicting that in a short time the committee would succeed in mustering broad support for Rockefeller's candidacy. Added Morton: "If we can't do it in four weeks, then we might as well give up. We'll have more delegates lined up in four weeks than a mule can haul...
...announced last week a dramatic increase in the U.S. production of the M-16 so as to equip all ARVN units by midsummer. The South Vietnamese will also be issued a new type of improved mortar, more armored personnel carriers, better communications equipment. They will also get more helicopter support to increase their firepower and mobility...
...continuing purges, which Gomulka has unsuccessfully tried to moderate, indicate that his troubles are far from over. Last week two of his own supporters on the ruling twelve-man Politburo, Cyrankiewicz and Party Ideologist Zenon Kliszko, came out in favor of the purges. That sign of approval from his own camp may have been the price Gomulka paid to avoid an immediate showdown with his critics, but it also whetted their desire for power. Police Boss Mieczyslaw Moczar, the man behind much of the anti-Gomulka dissidence but normally a shadowy figure, appeared three times in the past two weeks...
...college students might as well be in far-off space. And that is the idea. Ever since they were sealed up in a white steel cylinder in an outbuilding behind the McDonnell Douglas Corp.'s Santa Monica plant on Feb. 19, the students have been testing a life-support system designed for future orbital missions t hat could last for 60 days or longer...
...Ascoli, 69, the final blow was the abuse heaped upon him because of his support of the U.S. position in Asia and Viet Nam. In a recent issue, he lamented the loss of onetime friends and the "feeling of loneliness" it gave him. Though subscribers stayed steady at 210,000, their identity changed; Ascoli feels that he was losing liberal and academic readers and that the loss was causing publishing houses to reduce their advertising. Ad pages, which stood at a moderately money-losing 543 in 1963, dropped to a painfully money-losing 401 last year...