Word: favored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bees make no immediate decision, but the scouts continue to dance their reports after the swarm has separated and is hanging on a bush. Some favor a hollow tree 300 yards away; others have found a cranny under a barn floor. Often there are many factions, each dancing in a different direction. The debate may continue for several days...
...Paul Dudley White, the famous heart specialist, and Dr. John F. Enders, Nobel Prize winner, were the two leading figures in the distinguished group of Massachusetts physician-researchers who spoke before the Legal Affairs Committee in favor of the bill...
...conscientious father to his people. He travels the country (nowadays he flies in a Convair, has an air-conditioned trailer driven overland to meet him at his destination), listens to a sheik's troubles, soothes him with a Cadillac, a school or a clinic-given as a favor rather than as a right. But father comes first. In two years observers estimate Saud has set aside $100 million for new palaces. One just completed in Jiddah (cost: $28 million) brings his personal collection of palaces to 24, and another is planned for Dammam. In Riyadh Saud is tearing down...
...British protectorate), banned sale of Saudi oil to British or French buyers, broke relations with Britain and France, allowed Nasser to use Saudi airfields to fly his Russian jets and bombers to safety, and offered Saudi troops (Nasser declined them as unneeded). In return, he had one urgent favor to ask of Nasser: that he ask the Syrians not to blow up Tapline, the pipeline that carries a third of Aramco's production through Arabia and Syria to the Mediterranean. Reportedly, Nasser obliged -by making a telephone call to Syria's Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj who agreed. Iraq...
LABOR POLICY FIGHT over whether U.S. should pull out of International Labor Organization is turning in favor of I.L.O. New report by committee of business-endorsed experts, saying I.L.O. can be effective anti-Communist instrument, should make the difference when issue is voted on in next fortnight by National Association of Manufacturers, U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Some members of the two groups had questioned whether I.L.O. is socialistic, especially since Communist countries also belong...