Word: favored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in London, Foot proceeded to map out for Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and the Colonial Office the road he favored. Best guess as to Sir Hugh's recommendations: immediate talks either in Cyprus or London with Archbishop Makarios, leader of the Greek Cypriot community whom the British still refused to allow to return to Cyprus. Object of the talks: to agree upon a set period of self-government for Cyprus, after which the Greek majority (80%) of the island's inhabitants could decide in favor of union (enosis) with Greece if they still wanted...
Comparable operations are performed at other U.S. orthopedic centers. Los Angeles' Dr. Joseph C. Risser, though he pioneered the turnbuckle cast, has abandoned it in favor of a smaller, lighter cast, through which he operates after only one week. Patients, home after two weeks, can run and play while wearing the cast for only six months. Dr. Risser also favors operating in some cases that other orthopedists would leave alone. For Margie Bilotti, now 13½ and intent on an acting career, there was never any doubt about the operation's necessity. Like most of the "scolio club...
After casting the lone vote in favor of continuing the paper, Editor Gates told a capitalist-press reporter: "I intend to fight for the paper's continued existence. In any case, the Daily Worker will cease to exist when it alone says so." Sure enough, the paper appeared on the day it was to have died, said nothing about ceasing to exist or even about the party's orders. At week's end Gates was passing the same old hat, hoping to keep working the Worker until he gets the results of his appeal for its reprieve...
...little foundation. Mutual funds, with some $10.5 billion in stocks and bonds, are required to publish their investments at least twice a year, and there has been no visible damage to the market. So far, the Administration has potent support from A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, who is in favor of full disclosure of the finances of funds, including those run by management as well as by unions...
...before the state hails Harvard into court, or, waving a moral banner, brow-beats the University into submission, it should inquire into the real reasons for the "inquiry." It would find that the admissions office does use information from the photographs for discriminatory purposes. Discrimination, however, is in favor of the so-called underprivileged groups whose welfare was the original pretext for the FEPA...