Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since a service's hardware affects the role it wins in strategy and gives it the backing of a powerful segment of industry, no branch willingly gives up a promising weapon in favor of a similar one developed by a competitor. The Army's attempt to hold a place in space resulted in the Pentagon compromise to manufacture both the Jupiter (Army) and Thor (Air Force) intermediate-range ballistic-missile systems. Today's snowballing result is a duplication in production facilities, costly ground-handling equipment and training, as Jupiters are being installed in Italy and Turkey while...
GAMBLING: The Church of England "has never declared that betting and gambling are ecclesiastical crimes." Dr. Fisher came out in favor of the government's new bill to legalize off-track betting as a way to control a "grave social evil." But, he added, this does not mean the church is "saying that betting and gaming are good things. They...
...President of Colombia, who pushed through a series of economic reforms, tried to mediate between Liberals and Conservatives in Colombia's bloody civil war but was forced into exile (1952) by Conservative mobs who burned his home; in London, where he was serving as ambassador after returning to favor...
...wife of Varner's lazy son Jody, (Anthony Franciosa) casts a warm glow over the theatre by performing some marvelous romping in and out of bed (with the phonograph playing dixieland full blast). One gets the feeling, consequently, that Jody, who is being pushed out of his father's favor by the stranger Ben Quick (Paul Newman), does not have it so rough...
...capable of making enough steel in nine months to last the country a year. He listed several social benefits such as pensions and unemployment compensations which strikers have procured in the past and observed that if strikes had been forbidden these might never have been obtained. "I'm in favor of strikes to my dying day," he declared...