Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although spokesmen in each of the Departments concerned reported varied opinions, sentiment is predominantly favorable. Otto Eckstein, Assistant Professor of Economics, said that "the over-whelming opinion in the Economics Department is in favor of the CEP proposals...
Arab Republic (Egypt-Syria). Britain, whose North Sea fishing trawlers are a major industry, decided to abandon the three-mile limit in favor of a maximum of six, hoping thereby to avoid the threat of twelve, which would seriously jeopardize its fishing close to the coasts of Iceland, Norway and Greenland. Canada proposed a six-mile limit for national sovereignty, plus another six miles of exclusive fishing (a notion that horrified Britain). The Soviet Union, which has little at stake for itself in the issue, made propaganda hay by championing the smaller nations' twelve-mile proposals...
Though aware he would fall, gangling (6 ft. 3 in.) Premier Erlander rose from a sickbed to cast his ballot in favor of a Socialist proposal to provide uniform, state-administered pensions to all Swedes at the age of 67, giving them a fat two-thirds of the average income of their 15 best earning years. With the Socialists and Communists voting for Erlander's bill and the right-of-center parties against, the vote went 117 to 111 against Erlander...
...gastric ulcer; in Washington, B.C. A sideline Santa Claus who could quote Shakespeare by the act, Hickman won such popularity at Yale that the university once gave him the longest contract in its history (ten years) despite his not Merriwell-done record: when he resigned in 1952 in favor of a radio-TV career, his Yale elevens had won 16, tied 2, lost 17. Win or lose, the Tennessee Cannonball was good for a laugh, liked to tell stories on himself. Once, in a game with Princeton, the referee penalized Yale ten yards because Hickman was coaching from the sidelines...
...City Council last week expressed its disapproval of the trial plan in a 5-4 roll call vote. The Harvard Square Businessmen's Association, however, voted Tuesday in favor of extending the trial period for another 30 days...