Word: favored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more free-spending than the mood of the U.S. Congress. Just before President Eisenhower proposed his Middle Eastern resolution, the Gallup poll asked coast-to-coast whether the U.S. should or should not keep on spending its recent average of $4 billion a year on foreign aid. Result: in favor, 58%; against, 28%; no opinion, 14%. Pro-foreign aid sentiment, Gallup reported, cut cleanly across party lines-59% of Republicans, 59% of Democrats, 58% of independents...
...China. Hints dropped subsequently by Khrushchev indicated that Stalin's interference in China's affairs-particularly in the Korean war-had all but brought Sino-Soviet relations to the breaking point. With soft words and smooth promises Khrushchev soothed Chinese feelings. Last week the favor was returned. Red China's Premier Chou En-lai was in Moscow to repair with soft words and smooth threats the widening rifts in the Soviet Union's western empire and, incidentally, perhaps to save Khrushchev's neck...
...From Warsaw last week came reports that the 133-man Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party., meeting in Moscow in December, came within an ace of firing Khrushchev in favor of ex-Premier Georgy Malenkov, who seems to be huffing and puffing up the ladder since his demotion two years ago. The report has a plausible sound: a prearranged close testing of strength would be a finely calculated hint to the ebullient Nikita to mend his ways, but fast. It would explain the recent reversal of the Khrushchev line, the rewarming of Stalinist slogans for the benefit...
...dissenting unions will produce scientists of their own when the hearings resume in several weeks. After that, AEC's five commissioners, most of whom favor private power, will decide whether to approve the reactor. Although their final decision will not be determined by public opinion, AEC will weigh the feelings of Monroe's 25,000 residents. Said Vice Mayor Ruby G. Clime last week: "The citizens of Monroe are not frightened one bit. The great majority of the local people are thrilled. It will put Monroe definitely...
...Bricker amendment, designed to dilute the President's treaty-making power. Just when Senate leadership was needed most, Knowland abandoned his majority leader's desk, walked to the rear of the Senate, announced that he was speaking as a rank-and-file Senator, and argued in favor of the amendment...