Word: favors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the ear of Charlie Wilson and later of Neil McElroy, courteous, forceful Donald Quarles made enemies. He refused to favor old Air Force friends, chopped their budget as severely as the Army's and Navy's. From Quarles's office came the orders for cutbacks and stretch-outs in defense contracts, for a slowdown on wild-blue-yonder research, for an end to competitive missile programs-all to keep the Defense budget within bounds while the U.S. maintained a weapons "sufficiency...
Over 70 per cent of the undergraduate body favors extension of Friday evening parietal hours, according to a recent Student Council-sponsored poll. In the survey, taken in the Houses and among Freshmen, only one quarter of the students did not favor any change in parietal hours...
Stance & Circumstances. The new man in these deliberations, U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), won admiration from his colleagues in gaining assent to this largely U.S. package. He placed himself well over toward the British position in favor of serious negotiations with the Russians. But he also made a significant concession to the French. He had wanted to make public the Western proposal May 10, the day before the meeting with the Russians began. But the French argued that since the Russians started all the fuss by threatening Berlin, they should be required to submit a plan...
...wants to go to school six days a week? When the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation dreamed up a referendum on the question for teenagers, Sweden's school officials supported it as "a practical lesson in democracy." A vote in favor of lopping a day off the nation's traditional six-day school week seemed a foregone conclusion. To no one's surprise, the five-day forces among the kids took the spotlight with a motto delectable as smorgasbord: "Saturdays off mean less work...
...onetime winner of the Stalin Prize, Author Panova has been in and out of favor with the Soviet's politico-literary authorities. The chief charge against her: "Objectivity." Time Walked, too, is objective in that it is honestly observed, cleanly written, and as free of sentimentality as it is rich in compassion...