Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that civil order cannot be achieved without social justice but last week called Humphrey "naive" about crime. "Doubling the conviction rate in this country," said Nixon, "would do far more to cure crime in America than quadrupling the funds for Mr. Humphrey's war on poverty." He is in favor of "order with progress" when he speaks in Westchester but for "law and order" when he is in Houston or Charlotte, N.C. His approach seems to be paying off. The Louis Harris Survey last week produced new evidence that Nixon has been gaining popular support because...
...repeal of the state's 306-year-old antimiscegenation law and signed the first statewide open-housing law below the Mason-Dixon line (which was across Maryland's northern border). The law was limited to dwellings of more than five units, but Agnew later said he might even favor "total open housing...
...South to swing the numerical weight of its slaves without granting them suffrage. "In politics," writes Constitutional Historian John Roche, "there are no immaculate conceptions. The Electoral College was merely a jerry-rigged improvisation which has subsequently been endowed with a high theoretical content. It had little in its favor as an institution-as the delegates well appreciated...
...wild meeting from which the press was excluded, the employees voted 105 to 48 in favor of the contract. Many of the dissidents were night janitors...
...rebound principle apparently works in matters of business as well as affairs of the heart. Early this year, when cigarette-making Lorillard Corp. tried to merge with Schenley Industries, it was rebuffed in favor of the Glen Alden Corp. Meanwhile, Loew's Theaters Inc. was scorned when it attempted to merge with Commercial Credit Corp., which opted instead to merge with Control Data Corp. Last week the two losers got together on the rebound. In a complicated swap of Lorillard stock for that of Loew's (value of the exchange: at least $418 million), the two companies plan...