Word: favor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bobby can help it. Ironically, he once thought of the Senate as one of the worst possible paths for Jack's presidential bid, because he had to face one issue after another and was bound to lose some favor with every vote. Bobby believed that Jack could more effectively advance his career as Governor of Massachusetts, but J.F.K. scorned the job. "Who wants to sit in a corner office of the statehouse," he asked, "and hand out sewer contracts...
...another $50,000 to $250,000 to a golfer's take-home pay. The tally does decide who is the 1966 P.G.A. money champ. And in the approach to that pin, Nicklaus is only a putt or so away. Jowly Jack has been skipping a few contests in favor of some fishing and hunting, but when he does play, he averages more winnings than any other man on the tour. With seven official tournaments to go, he could catch Casper. The standings to date...
...forbidden. Orthodox leaders regard the Witnesses as the most persistent violators of the rule. While Kazanis was facing retrial, the Athens daily Ta Nea summed up church opinion in a story that wildly denounced the Witnesses as "an American Mafia with agents throughout the world, who make propaganda in favor of Judaism." Greece's Orthodox primate, Metropolitan Chrysostomos, recently called the sect "the Number 1 enemy of our church." When asked about the death sentences meted out to Witness objectors, Chrysostomos frostily replied: "The church does not interfere with the decisions of military justice...
...whole, Communist terrorism appears to be waning in Latin America. For one thing, the hemisphere's major Communist leaders agreed at last January's Tricontinental Conference in Havana to abandon their violent revolutionary line in favor of the via pacifica, which calls for subtle infiltration of Latin American governments and cooperation with other leftist parties in United Fronts. For another, Communist subversion during the past year has suffered severe setbacks in three major target countries-Peru, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic. Still, in other places Communist operations are neither very pacifica nor subtle. Items...
...this came about only after a great deal of dillydallying by both President Johnson and the Congress. The Democratic leadership had been bluntly warned by A.F.L.-C.l.O. President George Meany that any Government action that did not favor the machinists' union would bring widespread labor reprisal at the polls in November. During the long negotiations, the airlines raised their offer to the machinists no fewer than five times-from $48 million last spring to the final $87 million...