Word: favors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration defense policy, failed to score a direct hit in many bombing runs on and off the Senate floor. Feeling the balance-the-budget heat, he gradually backed down from his charge that the Defense Department was dangerously starved by the Budget Bureau, shifted toward a new line in favor of re jiggered priorities (more ICBMs) within present spending. Turning his attention to the farm program, he failed to score with cloudy hints of Commodity Credit scandals, or help write a new party farm program. Half-time score: Symington is still the favorite of most Democratic pros (notably Missouri...
Economy Whisper. For six days Halleck worked to whip his forces into line. Absentees were summoned to Washington from as far away as Warsaw and Moscow (only authorized absentee: Washington's golfing, honeymooning Republican Jack Westland). For 35 Republicans who were doubtful, or definitely in favor of overriding, Halleck and G.O.P. Whip Les Arends had quiet warning ("Either you go along with the President, or you don't") and promises from Interior Secretary Fred Seaton to revive eight politically strategic projects in next year's budget. Virginia Democrat Howard Smith, ever the foe of spending, whispered that...
...Naval Academy announced that it was junking six "hardware'' courses, e.g., "Naval Boilers'" and "Ship Stability," in favor of "studies of a fundamental nature which will not soon go out of date." Among them: a new course in vector calculus, a 25% increase in the basic physics course, a general shift in all engineering subjects "away from applied engineering to more of a basic science approach." In another innovation, Annapolis will credit 190 incoming middies this fall for a total of 316 college courses they took before entering the academy. The new students will move straight into...
...profitable trucking deal, as far as the committee investigators could trace, was Test Fleet, Inc., set up for Hoffa by a big Midwest trucking firm, Commercial Carriers Co. Commercial Carriers had some trouble with striking Teamster drivers in Flint. Mich., and Hoffa threw his weight into the dispute in favor of the company. Commercial Carriers then set up Test Fleet, transferred, all the stock to Mrs. Hoffa and Mrs. Bert Brennan in their maiden names, then guaranteed a $50,000 bank loan so that Test Fleet could buy trucking equipment to lease to Commercial Carriers. Under this...
...debating point. Even Southern Rhodesia's liberal ex-Prime Minister Garfield Todd, so reviled by his fellow whites for "pushing the Africans forward," would limit the franchise. After all, it is only eleven years since Britain itself abolished the universities vote, a weighing of the franchise in favor of the educated...