Word: favor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam war stand in the way of East-West understanding, despite the fact that many were resentful because Russia supplies 70% of Hanoi's imported war materiel. His persuasiveness eventually won over a majority of the Senate's Republicans (who were 22 to 13 in favor of the treaty). Even Ev Dirksen finally confessed: "I'm not impervious to misconceptions." When the time came to vote, Dirksen left a hospital bed, where he was confined by fatigue, to cast his "aye" and hail the treaty as beneficial "to the people of the entire world...
...revere many gods, they raise their right hand to none, nor swear by any book or document. Last week, with her hands folded aimlessly at her waist, Indira Gandhi once again became India's Prime Minister with a simple promise to carry out her duties "without fear or favor, affection or ill will." Thereupon she announced a new 18-man Cabinet that will have to deal with the severest problems in India's 20 years of independence. Since most of her enemies in the Congress Party were defeated in last month's general elections, Indira...
With youth, the "antique look" this spring is in. Students in Paris and London have been ransacking secondhand stores for old uniforms dating back to the Crimean and FrancoPrussian wars. But in the U.S., uniforms are generally out in favor of the Frank Nitti gangster look, including palm tree-studded ties and double-breasted pinstripe jackets. At Dartmouth, the particular "drinking uni" (for uniform) at the moment is the "blow-lunch look" (so called, one student explains, because "when you look at one of those ties you want to blow your lunch") topped off with a Red Baron Flying...
...anxious to combat the barrage of unfavorable publicity caused by William Manchester's book The Death of a President. "She's a fighter for all her frail beauty," he maintains. During the Manchester episode, she called Conniff several times for advice; in turn, he asked for a favor: the interview. An old friend of both Jack and Joe Kennedy, Conniff was hardly likely to be hostile. Jackie imposed no conditions on him, as she had on Manchester, nor did she ask to read the copy ahead of time. "She trusted us not to make it sensational," says Conniff...
Schenley's profits ($20.5 million last year) should look good on Lorillard's books. And with its marketing-minded young management, Lorillard should soon be able to return the favor for Schenley, whose 1966 sales of $478 million were only 2% greater than in 1957. Once the leading U.S. distiller, Schenley was overtaken by aggressive Distillers Corp.-Seagrams after the war. None of its leading brands (among them: Schenley Reserve blended whisky, Dewar's Scotch, I. W. Harper bourbon) are now the top sellers in their fields...