Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...G.O.P. also has points in its favor. This year the Democrats themselves have unleashed the specter of a Tammany Hall that calls the shots even for the Governor: at the August state convention, Tammany Chief Carmine De Sapio humbled Harriman, rumbled through his own personal choice for the U.S. Senate nomination, New York District Attorney Frank Hogan (TIME, Sept. 8). Harlem's powerful Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., is running on both tickets and, particularly in the wake of Democrat Orval Faubus' antics, could conceivably switch 30,000 Harlem votes to the Republicans. A final special advantage: many...
...Nelson Rockefeller's chances depend primarily on Campaigner Rockefeller himself. Polls show that he is making a dent. The gap between candidates, once 20% in Harriman's favor, has narrowed to a hairline's difference. And among voters who made up their minds in the last fortnight, Rockefeller is the choice 8-2 in rural areas and a remarkable even-Stephen in New York City, where the heaviest Democratic vote must come from...
...question: Should Red China be seated in the U.N.? Most adult Canadians, the poll showed, have only the fuzziest notion of what the argument is all about. A full 11% thought Red China already had a U.N. seat; 41% did not know. Among the minority who did know, 57% favored seating Peking. This meant that in Canada's voting population as a whole, only 27% clearly favor a U.N. seat for the Chinese Communists...
Although the matter has not been officially discussed by the Deans, Watson said that he personally thinks that it is "not healthy" for the Student Council to have to solicit funds at registration, although he does not favor a complete subsidy from the Administration. He emphasized, however, that any money would go directly to the Council without control from the Dean's Office, and would be withheld only if the Council "fell into disrepute," or ceased to function as intended...
...Dwight Dogherty '59, Chairman of the Dining Hall Committee, reported that 1,361 polls had been collected from students in the seven Houses. Sixty per cent voted in favor of 18 meals a week, while 18 per cent preferred taking only 14 meals a week, and 14 per cent favored no change in the present policy...