Word: favorably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...holiday season. He is to spend this week in Key Biscayne, Fla., where he has just bought a $128,000 house, then fly to Los Angeles for the Rose Bowl game. A fan of U.S.C. Running Back O. J. Simpson, the 1968 Heisman Trophy winner, Nixon is thought to favor the Trojans over Ohio State. But naturally he declined to commit himself in advance...
Serious Difficulties. With greater or less enthusiasm, the Social Democrats and Kiesinger favor 1) signing the treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons, 2) banning Adolf ("Bubi") von Thadden's reactionary National Democrats in order to deprive neo-Nazis of a shield of respectability, and 3) eliminating the legal deadline on murder charges to allow the judiciary to weed out the last remaining Nazi war criminals. Strauss takes the opposite position on each issue, and has been using his growing strength in his Hausmacht (power base) to give weight to his views...
...Finally, up stepped that superfeminist and onetime minister under Clement Attlee, Lady Summerskill, 67, to oppose the measure and put the issue in perspective: "Although your lordships know that I try to promote the interests of my sex frequently in this House, on this occasion I am biased in favor of the boy. I know the power of my sex when they are young. One has only to look at them in the street. Look at these magnificent girls with their marvelous miniskirts and their straight legs walking along the street full of confidence-and the poor little boys, with...
Johnson urged such a meeting, arguing that the Soviets seem genuinely eager to talk about mutual reduction in missile stockpiles, and possibly even to discuss more dramatic bilateral arms cuts. But, said Johnson, he would not go ahead without Nixon's approval. Nixon did not favor the idea, and the chances of a summit before Jan. 20 now seem remote. The two men agreed to meet at least once again before Johnson leaves office...
...going to refuse the guy who wants to buy 1,000 shares of a $1 stock. On the other hand, if he's got $800 for a blue-chip stock, I'd take that business." Since brokers often act as if they are doing him a favor by accepting his money, the odd-lotter frequently feels like odd man out. "I've only got $2,500 to play with," says Hollywood Electrician Richard Johnson. "I know that's not much. But I've had to change brokers three times in the past year, and each...