Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...predict or favor an expansion of the College by a thousand students, commuters or residents. In fact, I have been and continue to be strongly opposed to any increase in the size of the College. The Admissions Committee does not, however, determine the size of the College, and it is possible that the decision will be, eventually, to expand. But whatever happens I cannot believe that any future administration will be so misguided as to add a thousand commuters to the Harvard student body...
...BACKED MORTGAGES, which found few takers only several months ago, are coming back into favor. Among the reasons: rise in home building and general loosening of mortgage money, which has dropped interest rates on conventional mortgages close to FHA's 5¼% level...
Federal Communications Commissioner Richard A. Mack, he said, had taken a $2,650 payoff for casting the deciding vote in favor of granting a lucrative Miami television channel to a subsidiary of National Airlines. The money, Schwartz said, came from well-to-do Miami Lawyer Thurman A. Whiteside, who had a reputation as, "to use the colloquial term, 'a fixer.' " Added Schwartz: "Mr. Whiteside himself has been, and I believe still is, subject to disbarment proceedings." Schwartz's catalogue of evidence included a wire recording secretly made at his direction by his aide, Herbert Wachtell, while questioning...
...first thing he will need, she decides, is somebody to keep him interested in life. Since they have no children, she adopts one. Women know best, of course, so never mind whether the woman in this case is really doing her husband a favor-let alone the child. Still, children are cute, and this one is ever so. But the husband, a brain who does basic research in theoretical physics, does not seem to enjoy living in the same house with a walking edition of Bright Sayings, and it takes a special visitation by the ghost of Lauren Bacall, accompanied...
...cabinet meeting Monday night, the Harvard Phillips Brooks Association and the Radcliffe Voluntary Service Organization merged officially, William W. Freehling '58, president of the Harvard group, announced. Harvard voted 190 to 25 and Radcliffe 25 to 2, in favor of the move...