Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard-Radcliffe U.N. Council has come out in favor of a "yes" vote on the N.S.A. referendum. A minority of the Council's Executive Board would like to record its opposition to this stand. We feel that the U.N. Council's activities should be, to quote a recent committee report, the "... dissemination of information towards the end of greater (international) understanding--and that the taking of policy stands would seriously limit this role." Only in cases where the U.N. Council is directly and formally concerned should it override this principle. Thus the Executive Board could, and in our opinion should...
...issue." Then Knight punched his running mate squarely on the jaw: "Since he injected a non-Republican issue into the campaign, I am under no moral or legal obligation to endorse his candidacy. We Republicans frequently have asked Democrats to vote for our candidates. Perhaps we should return the favor...
...Scalawags. Tough, jowly President Iskander Mirza, who once declared himself in favor of "controlled democracy," watched the drift to chaos with mounting disgust. Son of a wealthy Bengal family,*graduate of Britain's Sandhurst, a major general before independence, he had long regarded most politicians as "crooks and scalawags." A Moslem who drinks whisky, smokes, shoots and rides, Mirza has always been blunt about his aristocratic creed: "Democracy requires breeding. These illiterate peasants certainly know less about running a country than I do . . . There has to be someone to prevent the people from destroying themselves...
...church, Agagianian was appointed by Pope Pius XII to succeed the late Cardinal Stritch as chief of all Catholic missions, is the church's top expert on the Mideast and Communism. His Russian-Armenian origin, which militates against his choice, in another respect weighs in his favor: his election would greatly impress Russians and other Eastern peoples...
Nonagenarian Stagg's life, though far from typical, may contain clues, for the observant gerontologist, to the secret of a long and useful existence. The first factor in Stagg's favor-though not to the same degree as in the case of some of his near peers-is heredity. Stagg's father, a cobbler who lived in West Orange, N.J., lived to be 73, his mother...