Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americana [Nov. 7] note about the proposal to change the name of Mount McKinley to Denali, an Indian word for "the Great One", omits points in favor of retaining the presidential name...
Responses to a questionnaire sent out by Alaska's Senator Ted Stevens showed that 73% of Alaskans want to keep the name Mount McKinley, while only 23% favor the change. Alaska now has a Denali Pass, Denali Camp, Denali State Park and Denali Highway. This makes that name rather commonplace, compared to that of the martyred President who, history records, was a leader in labor-law reform and in making the U.S. a dynamic world force-among other achievements...
...moved into juvenile prostitution, the New York State select legislative committee on crime last week heard testimony from young prostitutes and concerned police and social welfare officials. The committee found that the Mafia has begun moving back into prostitution, which it had largely abandoned in the 1930s in favor of more lucrative drug and loan-sharking rackets. Mobsters of the Genovese Mafia family are alleged to control many of the topless and bottomless bars, where youthful dancers are enticed into prostitution. The racketeers are also believed to own quick-turnover hotels where prostitutes work and are expanding their control...
Last week the argument was tilted sharply in favor of this organic explanation of the disease. At the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Anaheim, Calif., two California scientists reported that they had isolated a chemical from the blood of schizophrenics that may be at the root of their illness. Drs. Frank Ervin of U.C.L.A.'s Neuropsychiatric Institute and Roberta Palmour of the University of California at Berkeley described the substance as a variant of a peptide-a short chain of amino acids-that belongs to a family of newly discovered opiate-like brain hormones called endorphins...
...Mohammed delivered a sermon to his companions during their return from the "farewell-pilgrimage." There he transmitted to them the final revelation of the Koran that had been delivered to him thoughout a period of 23 years: "This day I [God] perfected your religion for you, and completed My favor unto you, and decreed Islam as your faith." The message of Islam was delivered totally; less than a year later Mohammed died...