Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chance meeting with Northeastern assistant coach Jim Calhoun at a 1970 basketball clinic turned out to be O'Neil's big break. One year after that initial contact, O'Neil received a call from Calhoun, who had been named Huskie head coach when mentor Jim Bowman resigned in favor of a career...
...Senate select committee on intelligence activities last week filled out the dismaying record of Hoover's eagerness to curry favor with Presidents by using agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to gather political information. The committee staffs report shows that Hoover willingly complied with improper requests from Presidents Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. He gratuitously offered political intelligence to Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Harry Truman, but both seemed unimpressed...
...kidnapings, and the subsequent cold-blooded murders, virtually paralyzed The Netherlands. While the Cabinet met in emergency sessions, television and radio stations suspended normal programming in favor of solemn music and news bulletins...
Massive Russian aid is turning the tide in Angola's murky three-way civil war, apparently in favor of the Luanda government of the Soviet-backed M.P.L.A. Last week barrages of Cuban-fired 107-mm. and 122-mm. Soviet rockets turned away the Zaïre-based F.N.L.A. forces ten miles north of Luanda, thereby putting the M.P.L.A. capital safely out of range of Chinese 130-mm. artillery manned by white Portuguese Angolans fighting with the F.N.L.A. The M.P.L.A. also recaptured the important road junction of Caxito, northeast of Luanda, and was closing in on the coastal city...
...feeling of happiness at an approaching holiday--it gives me the feeling that I am once again forgotten and excluded from a part of a University that has become my home. I do not want a paper menorah hanging next to the Christmas tree--I am not in favor of the commercialization of my holiday or of the tokenism this involves. I feel that there should not be any decorations connected specifically with any religious group in public sections of this University. I hope that in the future the people responsible for such displays will be more sensitive...