Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rocky little islands in the Beagle Channel,*at the tip of South America. Since 1881, Chile has more or less controlled the islands and Argentina has claimed them. As long ago as 1896, the two countries called on Queen Victoria to settle the matter, but when she ruled in favor of Chile, the angry Argentines balked. In 1977 an international tribunal appointed by the British government supported Chile's claim, and once again the Argentines objected. So last month, amid threats of war, the two strongly Catholic countries accepted Pope John Paul II s offer to send a special...
...Germans favored splitting off the administrative costs of the antiracism grants from the regular W.C.C. budget so that individual denominations could dissociate themselves from the program. Others wanted to end the grants. After lively debate, the central committee voted in favor of Potter's proposal for a long-term "consultation" over the antiracism program. Apparently left in force is a 1971 central-committee dictum that the W.C.C. does not "pass judgment on those victims of racism who are driven to violence as the only way left to them to redress grievances." Potter declared that most of the dissenters...
Modest, resolute, scrupulous about sources and his own ambitions as well, Bok, 39, is the very model of a folk singer, a breed that passed from wide favor and fancy more than a decade ago. Yet Bok fans are ranged wide, across the country, over into Europe, and down into the classroom. One elementary school in Labrador energetically studied Bok's The Hills of Isle au Haut but somehow twisted the title into The Hills of Ivanhoe. He has never earned more than $1,800 for a concert, and his record sales (15,000 tops) would get him bounced...
Musicals have family trees these days. The Grand Tour found favor on Broadway as Jacobowsky and the Colonel in 1944 and again as a 1958 film titled Me and the Colonel. It deserves to stretch out its winning streak with the current version, which is endearing, amusing, exuberant and poignantly humane...
...committee from 8-6 to 7-6, bar lawyers from the hearings, and permit the release of transcripts of the proceedings if all parties agree. Even these reforms are a mixed blessing at best. Barring lawyers from the hearings, for example, weights the scales even more heavily in favor of the administration, as it can still draw on Harvard's legal staff--including General Counsel Danial Steiner '54--for everything from investigating initial charges to preparing a brief and specific question for the administrator handling the case in the CRR. Students could be left to face the committee unaided...