Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still at work in the Governors' favor is the same old chemistry that has kept either party from nominating a U.S. Senator since Republicans put up Ohio's Warren Gamaliel Harding for President in 1920. Senators make enemies in their votes on controversial issues, and this year's crop is no exception (e.g., the Democratic vote against confirmation of Lewis Strauss as Commerce Secretary). Moreover, presidential candidates in the Senate are having a great deal of trouble keeping their luster in the current squabble over Democratic Party policy (see The Congress) and are suffering from overexposure...
...years ago, Lawyer Joseph, 29, would have had scant prospects of winning his case. But in Illinois, as in most other states of the U.S., the past few years have seen a striking trend in favor of the plaintiff in damage suits, with ever bigger awards and ever broader liability. Such charitable institutions as churches have been held liable to the extent of having to pay damages out of their previously sacrosanct trust funds. The trend has even shaken the old common-law principle that a government entity is immune from damage claims as long as it stays within...
...crowded are Cook County court dockets that the school-fire case will not come to trial for an estimated five years. But if it is decided in the plaintiffs' favor, it could have far-reaching results, facing Chicago and other cities with an endless procession of negligence damage suits after any fire, explosion or accident in an area where the city is charged with safety inspection...
Losing Hold. Narayan appears on the same platforms with Freedom Party leaders but is not, and says he will not become, a party member. His own ideas, in favor of decentralized welfare villages and against gigantism, strike many, including Nehru, as hopelessly unrealistic. But he is a powerful force in India nonetheless. Another of India's big guns, 74-year-old Rajendra Prasad, India's figurehead President, recently wrote Nehru a long letter criticizing basic government policies on unemployment, education, food and industrial development...
...rather feeble engine, but sails were her main reliance. Such a laboratory makes oceanography a rugged science. While the little ship rolls and pitches, the scientists work round the clock, snatching bits of food and sleep during quiet intervals in their experiments. Dress is informal. In the Tropics, oceanographers favor ragged shorts or underdrawers; on North Atlantic cruises the men are generally cold and wet, and during the first week at sea most of them get seasick. "The best seagoing oceanographers," says Iselin, "are the result of picking over a lot of stomachs...