Word: favors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Came out in favor of bullfights on grounds that it "would be better to have tourists coming down to see bullfights than to gamble and visit houses of prostitution...
Part of Segovia's power over his audience derives from his single-minded devotion to the instrument he restored to concert-hall favor. "The guitar is as difficult as a hysterical woman," he says. "But I am faithful to her. I am not polygamous." Segovia still practices five hours each day, and for a month each summer he teaches classical guitar at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy. He also gives more concerts than ever (120 scheduled this year). Segovia generally avoids flashier-sounding pieces. "If people have even a little understanding," he says, "it is better...
...from the capitalism of half a century ago, and that it is still "in the state of evolution, cleaning up the many abuses of the past." He describes his economic philosophy as "very much in the middle," against too much power for both labor and management. He is in favor of "the freest possible market. There is a great danger of cartelism in the American economy and a great deal of concern over the problem of bigness." On the other hand, he does not believe that the closed or union shop or opposition to the right-to-work laws "serves...
...Frontal Attack." The indictment caused a wince of pain from the department because the trustbusters had begun their campaign against the highly regarded International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and not against some out-of-favor union such as Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters. But First Assistant Antitrust Chief Robert Bicks said: "It would be a perversion of our function to discriminate between 'good' and 'bad' unions. The question is whether unions are violating the Sherman Act." I.L.G.W.U. President David Dubinsky, who has fought hard and with distinction against sweatshop operators and racketeers...
Marilyn is rarely in hers. Clad in negligee and open mouth, she crawls into Lemmon's upper berth to thank "her" for a favor, notices with innocent surprise: "You poor thing, you're trembling all over...