Word: favors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expressed sentiments that seemed heresy to Alabama's rabid segregationists. Said he: "We cannot afford to crawl back into a hole as far as public education is concerned." On a trip to Washington, Patterson met Massachusetts' Senator John Kennedy, whom he admired. Patterson promptly spoke up in favor of Catholic Jack Kennedy's presidential candidacy (TIME, July...
Curiously, Europe's leaders were not waiting to tell Eisenhower what to say to Khrushchev; none seemed to have any fresh ideas about that. They wanted to talk about their own problems-mostly with one another. Though European leaders seemed to favor Khrushchev's U.S. visit, it had the side effect of demoting their own importance, and led them to jostle with one another. The Eisenhower mission to Europe was thus likely to prove far different-and far more complex-than originally anticipated...
...Deep Freeze. The Chinese now insist that even India's consul in Lhasa carry an identity card. And India's once well-treated ambassador to Peking is now getting the deep-freeze treatment previously reserved for the out-of-favor Yugoslav ambassador...
...impartial arbitrators say it is unworkable. It agrees that employees may file grievances, as now, but its language is so broad (the company cannot be stopped from "improving the efficiency and economy of its operations") that any arbitrator would almost have to decide any grievance in management's favor...
...State Department and the President, who has the final say about what international routes the U.S. gives out, are ending the giveaway period in favor of more horse trading and stricter rule watching. The new trend was forced by the awareness that U.S. flag lines could follow the downward path of the U.S. maritime industry. Though 70% of all air passengers between the U.S. and foreign countries are U.S. citizens, the share of traffic carried by U.S. carriers has fallen from 75% in 1949 to 60% today. In the first quarter this year, BOAC nudged out Trans World Airlines...