Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Freshman Varsity Athletes: "You have to watch their academic life more carefully. I'd be against the new rule if all NCAA schools decided not to play freshmen on the varsity, but I favor it as things stand now because we need it in order to be competitive...
...withdraw his candidates in districts where Socialists run ahead. In many areas this would result in three-way races - Communists v. Socialists v. center-right candidates - a situation that would give the non-leftists an overwhelming advantage. According to one poll, if the Communists do withdraw in favor of Socialist front runners, the left coalition could win 257 seats in the Assembly - well above the 246 needed for a majority. But if Marchais keeps his weaker candidates in the running, the left may win only 191 seats, v. 300 for the center-right. And the parties that have held power...
...baby-faced Maharaj Ji, now 20, was once worshipped as the Lord of the Universe by 50,000 or so devotees of the Divine Light Mission. In 1975 his mother, Mataji, disapproving of his playboy ways and his marriage to an airline stewardess, deposed him in favor of his brother. Since then the name of the organization in the U.S. has been changed to the Spiritual Life Society, and it has been struggling to hold on to its dwindling following (about 200). To rally the faithful, Truth Incarnate spoke at Manhattan's Society for Ethical Culture: "A potter...
...weight there is a loss in life expectancy of one month, Cohen went on to estimate the consequences of drinking cans or bottles of ordinary soda pop (which contain about 100 calories, v. no calories for the diet soda). The results of all these comparative calculations were decidedly in favor of the saccharin-spiked drinks. Says Cohen: "If all other things were unchanged, the substitution of diet for nondiet drinks would increase life expectancy by 100 times more than the cancer risk reduced...
...Most of the non-Hersant papers in Paris favor her, and she has been waging a vigorous shoestring campaign with personal letters to voters. Despite Hersant's superior financial and propaganda assets, late polls show D'Harcourt running slightly ahead of Hersant. Many French journalists still hope that after the elections they too will be able to say, it can't happen here...