Word: favored
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...estimated 22,500 in three years; by contrast, the bland Dallas Express has slipped from 9,000 to 4,900. Sensitive to the growing pride in race, the papers are using the word Negro much less than before; the Amsterdam News has banned it altogether in favor of Afro-American. "Our emphasis is on self-determination within the black community," says Nigerian-born Simon Anekwe, who writes a column on Africa for the News...
Testifying in favor of the bill, Tucson Citizen Publisher William A. Small Jr. contended that Tucson (pop. 257,000) was simply not a big enough city to support two independent dailies. The Citizen, he said, had been on the "brink of death," and the agreement with the Star had been a "lifesaving device." Jack Howard, president of Scripps-Howard, a chain with a total of seven joint operating agreements, agreed. The effect of the bill, he said, is not to "restrain competition but to preserve it to the fullest extent possible, to preserve two or more healthy papers where there...
Leader of the fight for continued commonwealth ties is Luis Munoz Marin, 69, a near-legendary figure among the island's ibaros (peasants). The country's first elected Governor (1948), Munoz retired three years ago in favor of his protégé, Roberto Sanchez Vilella, but has remained a powerful force in favor of the commonwealth. When Governor Sanchez doomed his political career last March by spurning his wife of 31 years in favor of a comely aide, Muñoz took over the Popular Democratic Party's drive to retain common wealth status. Ever since...
...hypnotized into gambling, and illegal gambling flourishes today because the customers are there. Once considered either the elegant pastime of the rich or the grubby escape of the poor, it is now virtually classless. Who plays which game? Dealers and other psychologists offer only rough generalizations: competitive types favor man-against-man games such as blackjack; intellectual types and women more passive pursuits such as roulette; craps, with its rattles, pitches and shouts of "Baby needs shoes!" attracts the assertive male. As for horseplayers, according to one sociologist, about 60% are lower- and middle-class men who bet long shots...
Many law-enforcement officials favor legalization of gambling. Their chief arguments: 1) people gamble anyway, so why not regulate the action and bring in revenue for the state rather than for mobsters; 2) legal control is the only way to keep out criminals. The counterarguments are that 1) even controlled gambling will lead many people into the habit who would not otherwise get hooked; 2) lotteries in particular are played mostly by lower-income families and thus constitute an unjust tax on the poor; 3) in places like Nevada, where gambling is legal, criminal elements have certainly not faded away...