Word: favor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pennsylvania (130): Humphrey can expect 95 and McCarthy 21. The 14 Kennedy votes are still uncommitted, but a majority of these favor the Vice President...
...Brandt, would like to respond to Ulbricht's travel restrictions by some daring move, such as abolishing the need for visas for other East bloc visitors to West Germany, in order to illustrate how anachronistic Ulbricht's restrictions are. In today's relaxing Europe, they also favor diplomatic recognition of East Germany in hopes that even a slight reduction in tensions there might help to create a situation in which the 74-year-old Ulbricht's successor, or perhaps his successor's successor, might turn out to be an East German Alexander...
Those desires are unrealistic at present, because the Christian Democrats refuse to go along with them. Many of them, on the contrary, favor a return to a far tougher line with the Soviet bloc and argue that West German concessions are likely only to encourage Ulbricht to tighten his grip on West Berlin. As they see it, deals between the two Germanys ultimately would erode the allied responsibility for West Berlin, still the city's best guarantee for safety...
...cavorted and where Booker owns eight sugar plantations, as well as investments in ships and stores. When Fleming, during a golf game, complained that no one would buy his Bond-holding Glidrose Productions Ltd. and manage it while he spent more time writing, Sir Jock did his friend a favor by offering $250,000 for 51% control...
Rolling In. Today Britons wonder who did the favor for whom. Fleming died in 1964, and Sir Jock, now 55, retired last year. Still, in acquiring the rights to Bond books-79 million published so far-Booker cleared $360,000 in royalties. Equally sugary are the royalties worldwide on 007 toiletries, sweatshirts, wet suits and a percentage on James Bond movies...