Word: favor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knew that he was the only man in the country, save perhaps the President, who could make headlines with almost anything he said-and knew also that this did not always help him. He publicly questioned the war long before it became popular to do so, spoke in favor of the poor in affluent areas where it was clearly not to his advantage, and defended law and order in the ghettos, where such a statement by any other white man would have been interpreted as anti-Negro. A curious blend of liberal and conservative, he was concerned about poverty...
...mean to the future of the presidential contest. The first effect was confusion, accompanied by a Babel of rumors. One had it that the U.S. Supreme Court would study the constitutionality of simply postponing the election until 1970. Another predicted that Hubert Humphrey would withdraw from the race in favor of Ted Kennedy. Yet another said that Lyndon Johnson might plunge back into the race. All were remote possibilities at best...
Similarly, 94 of Michigan's 96 votes are expected to be solidly arrayed for the Vice President. While McCarthy will doubtless inherit pockets of delegate strength formerly pledged to Kennedy, the Minnesotan's unorthodox style does not endear him to Democratic party professionals, who have tended to favor either Kennedy or Humphrey. With the important primaries over, the search for delegates will shift from the polls to political clubhouses-an uncongenial environment for the professorial Senator...
...supervisor passed the cubicle-and did a double take. "Aren't you Ramsey Clark?" asked the flabbergasted IRS agent. "Yes," nodded the Attorney General of the United States, who then quietly turned back to his papers. The error, as it turned out, was in Clark's favor; he had paid too much in 1967 taxes, and collected a $500 refund from the Government...
...share, depending on share prices-but out-ot-state stock sellers can look forward to a 50% cut in the tax over a five-year period beginning in mid-1969. The new law also scraps a rising tax rate on big sales in favor of a flat $350 tax on those of 7,000 shares or more...