Word: favors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plan limiting the number of years of graduate study to four. The plan, alternately referred to as the "No degree--flee!" plan or the "write or perish" proposal, was voted down by the Faculty. There was, in the words of Eliott Perkins, only "a peeping chorus of ayes" in favor of the proposal...
Trofim Lysenko is an egregiously indestructible plant breeder from the Ukrainian black-earth belt who long ago won world notoriety, scientific contempt and Stalinist favor with his attempt to rewrite nature to suit Marx. A weird cross between sinister charlatan and seedy fanatic. Lysenko used his political influence, based on Stalin's favor, to wreak ruthless vengeance on his critics, the scholars who had made genetics-until his rise-the pride of Russian science...
...shuttling between Athens and Ankara, setting the stage for a meeting in Paris this week between Turkish Foreign Minister Fatin Rustu Zorlu and Greek Foreign Minister Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza. Greece is moving closer to abandoning its cry of enosis (union with Greece) and Turkey its demand for partition, in favor of eventual independence for the island, with rights of the Turkish minority guaranteed...
...French, and then to the Communists. Thrown into prison in 1946, she escaped, joined the partisans. Today, in her bustling office in the palace, which because of its busyness she calls Le Moulin (the mill), she handles a bewildering assortment of visitors and letters asking every sort of favor, from help in curbing an abusive husband to advice on a Latin essay. She manages the presidential palaces and mansions, but in spite of her connections ran for the National Assembly as an Independent. "I am very independent," she explains. "It isn't that I disagree with the majority party...
Unpopular Task. Frondizi won office with Peronista votes, and his first political instinct was to repay the favor with such spendthrift sops as massive wage rises. But Frondizi, son of an Italian immigrant roadbuilder, is a responsible lawyer and political economist, and he soon made a different choice. He swapped Peronista support for army backing and began the dangerous, unpopular job of making Argentina live within its means. First, he coolly downgraded the ineffectual, sacred-cow national oil monopoly, by inviting foreign oilmen to develop Argentina's petroleum resources. The first new well came in last week, beginning...