Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With just three days remaining until the Yale game, coach John Yovicsin admits that he's worried about the Elis. "I certainly wish they hadn't taken such a beating from Princeton last week. That one will work in their favor on Saturday...
...without the two-thirds safeguard "the constitution will become a fragile document on which no one can rely, since it can be changed any day or any moment." The opposition saw Nkrumah's proposal as just one more step toward the complete abolition of the regional assemblies in favor of an all-powerful central government. Nkrumah frankly agreed; the regional assemblies, he said, were "a rape on Mother Ghana," and had produced a "leprous baby." Opposition M.P.s cried, "What's the hurry? What's the hurry?" as Nkrumah rammed through a second reading of the bill. With...
...Dealing afternoon New York Post (circ. 351,439) hemmed and hawed until five days before the election and then endorsed Democrat Averell Harriman for re-election as New York Governor. At that eleventh hour its minced-hearted editorial ("Whatever his failures and shortcomings . . . we favor Harriman's re-election") read as if a myopic makeup man had misplaced several paragraphs. Post readers thought all this rather strange, but it was only the beginning...
...Amateurs. The fuse to last week's explosion had been smoldering since 1954, when West Coast Industrialist Norton Simon (Hunt Foods, Ohio Match Co.) began to acquire a controlling 35% interest in the widely held McCall stock. He reorganized the board in his favor, and last year startled Madison Avenue by bringing in Langlie as president. Puritanical, parsimonious Lawyer Langlie was a three-time (1941-45, 1949-57) Republican governor of Washington (TIME, Sept. 3, 1956), but a publishing amateur...
With the stage set for a deciding Crimson touchdown, Brown kindly obliged by twice giving up the ball in its own territory--once on a pass interception, once on a fumble. But the varsity returned the favor both times by incurring 15-yard holding penalties on its first play from scrimmage, killing both opportunities...