Word: favorable
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Four incumbents, Francis Duehay '55, Mary Ellen Preusser, David Wylie and Saundra Graham, received endorsements by large margins. The convention also voted strongly in favor of endorsing challenger David Sullivan, but another challenger, Alvin Thompson, barely squeaked onto the ticket...
...class marshals contacted yesterday said they did not favor total boycott, and that contributions to the Biko Fund still have symbolic value, even if the money does not greatly increase opportunities for black South Africans to study at Harvard...
...receivers are expected to reject Murty's latest offer. He charges that they have been under pressure all along to favor the Aga Khan's bid, which was well below what a public auction might have realized. The prince got some first-class mares, Murty says, but still was not satisfied. "He wanted to corner the market on the Boussac mares." The Aga Khan's reponse: "I don't see why I should be heaped with insults just because Murty took a bad business risk." Had Murty "made a more reasonable bid in the beginning, none...
Politically, the fight is shaping up along party lines. The Democrats generally favor the bill, although some agree with the Republicans that it would allow an unwarranted intrusion by the Government into hospital affairs. The G.O.P. also sees the bill as a wedge to open the way for price controls in other industries. Contends Republican Congressman David Stockman of Michigan: "It is a classic Rube Goldberg legislative contraption that will be impossible to implement and virtually make Califano the hospital czar...
...into people's brains. Both of those had an element of risk and were not nearly so accurate as the CAT." But when it comes to the usefulness of whole body scanning there is considerably more disagreement, even though evidence is mounting in the machine's favor. Another important question is how many of the devices the country needs, and can afford...