Word: favor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reagan, still handsome and preternaturally youthful-looking at 55, has carefully eschewed support of extreme right-wing causes in favor of a pragmatic middle-of-the-road approach-and his managers have made certain that the far right has no place in his campaign organization. Speaking to housewives in vegetable-growing Salinas, he conveyed just the right blend of humor and concern at the rising cost of living. "You ladies," he charmed, "know that if you stand in front of the asparagus counter at the supermarket these days, it's cheaper to eat money." To the charge that...
...they say, the area around the Bennett St. Yards does not seem notably "blighted" and might not easily qualify as a renewal project. If the actual Bennett St. Yards were included in the project area, chances might be better. However, I. M. Pei, architect for the Library, does not favor putting his construction site under federal renewal laws...
Well-informed sources in Washington said that the government's study of the draft, begun two years ago, was being reoriented in favor of universal service. The report, they said, will be published next month although details of the plan are still incomplete...
...laboratory for his work. Then in 1934 Kapitsa returned to Russia for a scientific convention, and Stalin refused to let him leave. Over the years, a few rumors about Kapitsa leaked out, putting him variously as head of Russia's atomic-bomb program, then as out of favor for refusing to work on the H-bomb, and finally, after Stalin's death, as director of the Soviet space program. Last week, to almost everyone's surprise, Kapitsa, now 71, stepped off a Soviet jetliner in London for a three-week visit to Britain...
Some campaigns approach sex with humor. Stella D'Oro is selling breadsticks with a 60-second study of a girl hip-swiveling her way down a Rome street and another of a girl who ignores a crush of handsome men in favor of a runt carrying a sackful of Stella D'Oros...