Word: favor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...depriving him of that luxuriant handlebar mustache, the Air Force clearly owed Colonel Robin Olds, 45, a favor. But four stars? Yet there they were, stuck to his chair when he arrived at the Air Force Academy to take over as commandant of cadetsput there, it turned out, to represent the four Communist MIGs Robin had shot down over Viet Nam. As for that other fighter pilot's badge-the one the brass told him to polish off with a razor because cadets can't wear them -he may not have been the only one inconvenienced...
...wanted-the gift of a heart, unprecedented in history. Edward Darvall listened numbly as Barnard told him: "We have done our best, and there is nothing more that can be done to help your daughter. There is no hope for her. You can do us and humanity a great favor if you will let us transplant your daughter's heart." Said Darvall: "If there's no hope for her, then try to save this man's life." He signed the consent...
...referendum on Vietnam conducted at 19 universities in the northeastern U.S., 84 per cent of those polled voted in favor of de-escalation...
They will eschew what they call "the bankrupt New Left technique of single issue organizing" in favor of linking the war to a variety of local problems--welfare, inflation and particularly Cambridge's shortage of low-income housing. They hope local residents will then organize to solve these problems and, at the same time, express their opposition to the war. The details of this organization are still vague, but members of the group have suggested putting pressure on the Cambridge City Council to pass a rent control ordinance, and beginning a weekly newspaper to compete with the Cambridge Chronicle...
Inside Bach. If any message surfaces from Columbia's far-out stockpile, it is simply that today's musical world spins through healthy confusion. While some composers have chosen to cut themselves off from the familiar sounds of instruments in favor of microphones and amplifiers, others-Lukas Foss, Gunther Schuller and the Russian Edison Denisov-find within orchestral resources the means for flying just as high. Denisov, the first composer from the recently surfaced Russian avant-garde to find his way to records, builds his six-minute Crescendo e Diminuendo by offering the conductor a series of short...