Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...misconceptions about the temper of the rest of the NATO allies. In Washington shortly before leaving, Secretary of State Dulles had made it plain that he was counting on hard and fast acceptance of the U.S. plan to establish missile bases in Europe. Said he: "I don't favor these so-called agreements in principle." He had apparently given little weight to the talk of new East-West negotiations that had swept Europe in the wake of Russian Premier Bulganin's preconference notes to NATO nations (TIME. Dec. 23). "If Communism is stubborn for the wrong...
...fleeting days of freedom. Kadar himself had fought Stalinists in his Cabinet trying to prevent the trial. He did not want to risk stirring fresh hostility to his despised regime, was also embarrassed because he himself had served in Nagy's revolutionary government. But Boss Khrushchev ruled in favor of a show trial. The charge: treason. Nagy, befuddled and brainwashed after long internment at Sinaia, Rumania, has been transferred to Budapest's Fo Utca prison, is reportedly adjudged ready to "confess...
...finance the $345 million city he authorized Novacap to speculate in Brasilia's residential land. He begged U.S. Ambassador Ellis Briggs for a Brasilia loan as a "personal favor," got $10 million from the Export-Import Bank...
...that had never been printed. When longtime Reporter (and sometime night city editor) Limpus died of a heart ailment last week at 60, the city desk pulled it out of the files. It was Limpus' obit, and at the top was a note: "Do me one final favor and use this instead of an effusion by somebody else...
...nine months of looking for a successor to retiring School Superintendent William Jansen, 70, the New York City Board of Education seemed to favor one man. Dr. John J. Theobald, 53, has no degree in education and never taught in a public school, but as the energetic president of municipal Queens College and more recently as New York's deputy mayor, he has come to know as much about his city and its huge (1,000,000 pupils) school system as any man. Last week, after looking over 24 candidates from all over the U.S., the board announced that...