Word: favorably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Magaziner's principal recommendations are that collegians be allowed to choose courses in broad intellectual areas that interest them, rather than follow fixed requirements, and that conventional grades be abolished in favor of "pass" or "no credit." His report also urges professors to focus on concepts rather than narrow facts, and to work far more closely with individual students. These ideas are not especially original; Magaziner's achievement is the persuasive logic of his presentation...
...Administration, however, prefers to rely on the courts rather than on Congress. William J. Boyd, chief of the Federal Trade Commission's mergers division, notes that the courts almost always rule in favor of the Government in merger cases. Boyd feels sure that "despite the changing composition of the Supreme Court, the Government will continue to win its merger cases." He has reason to think so. In a major suit involving Reynolds Metals Co. and Arrow Brands, Inc., in 1962, the presiding judge declared that the Government has sufficient grounds to break up a merger that merely...
...women to love scoundrels," writes Orville Prescott, "is one of the abiding marvels of the world." Prescott may be right. In this compendium of scoundrels, he offers much evidence to prove his point. Galeazzo Sforza, for instance, was so cruel that he once had a courtier, fallen from favor, nailed up in a chest. Then, the story goes, he gleefully listened to the dying man's moans. Still, when assassins cut Sforza down at the door of a church, his wife, the Duchess Bona of Milan, mournfully wrote to Pope Sixtus IV, declaring that "after God," she loved Galeazzo...
...Manhattan to California's San Quentin Prison. Tree has mesmerized audiences with the elemental tones he coaxes from his collection of almost 200 percussion and wind instruments. No two concerts are exactly the same. Tree shuns structure-and with it harmony and most other Western musical conventions-in favor of impulse. "Spontaneity is the essence of the creative act," he says. "Spontaneous music is much more vital than other music because it is actually happening...
...plays TV's Captain Kangaroo, Bill Keeshan spent 17 years learning the racks at Bullock's, a Southern California department-store chain; in 1963 he became head of Magnin's, a Bullock's subsidiary. He helped swing his firm's bitterly divided board in favor of Federated's takeover bid in 1964, and last year the parent company chose Keeshan to head the entire Bullock's-Magnin chain, a 31-link organization that has $280 million in annual sales...