Word: favors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marshals themselves split into two factions, with Robert R. Foster '59 standing in favor of a new election if a sufficient number of seniors, through the petition, should demand it. Foster is second Marshal. The other two Marshals, Marc E. Leland '59 and R. Dyke Benjamin '59, and alternate Marshal Richard E. Ruben- stein '59 issued a joint statement claiming that the election was "honest and legitimate," and asked the Senior Class "to deny this petition (its) support...
There can be little doubt that Congress will reject the Administration's budget estimate in favor of a higher one, possibly one as high $83 billion. This action will come, not because of any insurgent radicalism on the part of the Democrats, but because Congress has learned that there are more things one can do with money than save it, and this is a sometime good thing. The Administration's efforts to cut down on government expenses are certainly laudable, but in the terms of the sports world, Ike should have learned by now that the object...
...excruciating embarrassment. But Pat soon learned "that people were not as interested in what I had or what I wore as in what I was . . . It healed me of a lot of insecurity to find out that if my cow gave people a laugh, I was doing them a favor...
Predictable result: last week, after months of debate by Soviet educators and further eruptions from Khrushchev, the Supreme Soviet voted unanimously in favor of a sweeping reconstruction of the Red schoolhouse. Highlights of the change, which will get under way next September and be completed in three to five years...
...also helped by Nyrop's intimate acquaintance with official Washington, where he served as head of the Civil Aeronautics Administration (1950-51) and the Civil Aeronautics Board (1951-52). When President Eisenhower overturned a CAB decision in 1955 and ordered Northwest off the Seattle-Portland-Honolulu run in favor of Pan Am, scrappy Don Nyrop flew into Washington, rallied so much political support that Ike returned the route to Northwest, admitted that he had "made an error." Last month Northwest, whose domestic runs had been limited to Northern states, opened a fat Chicago-Florida route, worth $13.5 million...