Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reluctance to take on Douglas. "You can't fault Paul Douglas as being lackluster or a hack," he said. "He is a solidly entrenched, hard-working Senator. He has managed very successfully to disassociate himself, in the public mind, from the Daley machine, while receiving all the benefit of its work. He works for every welfare measure that comes up and yet has the image of favoring econ omy in Government because he harasses the Pentagon on the cost of screwdrivers. It's quite a combination...
Nevertheless, for the benefit of his 25-odd Laborite left-wingers who were deeply shocked by steel's omission, Wilson in the debate following the Queen's speech insisted that steel was not dead but merely sleeping until the parliamentary calendar was less crowded. Tory Leader Ted Heath was not impressed: "It looks like the biggest conversion since Bessemer invented his converter," he jeered, "a squalid act of political expediency by a prime minister who puts political powers before his principles and beliefs." Heath's biting attack, as he taunted Wilson with every promise he had ever...
...Land reform ought to be put through at once. We have to give the peasant a stake in his own country -- something to fight for...I think the Mekong power scheme is terribly exciting. It's one of the world's great power sources and the whole area could benefit from it. We should pop in a UN defense now to protect the scheme." As for American policy, she maintained that there's absolutely no cause for pulling...
Robert Lowell '39, visiting professor of English, will read from his poetry at 8:45 p.m. tonight in Sanders Theater. The reading, for the benefit of Massachusetts Political Action for Peace, will include several unpublished works...
...Phoenix benefit. The Women had changed, if ever so subtly. To bring the text up to date for the performance of the 44-girl cast-all played by Phoenician socialite amateurs -Playwright Luce had used her author's prerogative to pencil in changes. "Look, Schiaparelli!" became "Look, Balenciaga!" "No one has mistaken you for Mrs. Harrison Williams yet" was changed to "for Princess Radziwill"; "I wish I could make up my mind whether or not I like Shirley Temple" was updated to "whether I like the Beatles." Originally, when the cigarette girl asked...