Word: favors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago gave Evangelist Billy Graham a cold shoulder last week. After a poll on whether to sponsor a Graham crusade, the Church Federation of Greater Chicago reported that church bodies representing ; 338,000 members were in favor-but those representing 693,000 members stood opposed or uncommitted, mainly on the ground that mass meetings give an incomplete presentation of Protestantism. Decision : no invitation for Billy...
...Guild finally came to terms. The Guild won a pay raise ($3-$5 a week for the next year) plus an arbitration clause for disputed firings, a shield against anticipated cutbacks. But when the workers returned to their jobs, they found new work schedules that penalized strikers in favor of strikebreakers; e.g., Amusement Page Editor Henry Murdock was assigned to work for Reviewer Barbara Wilson, a former subordinate who had been given his editorship. The Teamsters threatened to walk out once more unless the old assignments were reinstated...
...Church's Chance. Birth control and the problem of overpopulation is expected to be the biggest issue in the discussion of THE FAMILY IN MODERN SOCIETY. The bishops will probably come out in favor of birth control education. In the words of the preliminary report, "Christians may give support to any government deciding to encourage family planning in conjunction with efforts to raise the standing of living...
...would protect himself, as he had always done when Radcliffe freshmen, wild with prep school passion, stormed his sports car to win his favor. Ever haughty, ever proud, Vag had constructed a wall between the world and himself. All that was inane, boorish, and crude was forever shut off from...
What the visitors heard last week was music pushed a step beyond the otherworldly compositions of French musique concrète, which utilizes natural sounds taped and glued together in weirdly unnatural order. The resident composers at the Cologne studio tend to abandon natural sound in favor of sounds artificially manufactured on tape. Represented at the demonstration were Hungarian Composer Gyorgy Ligeti, 34, whose Articulation consisted of a series of blips and plops dramatically relieved by an occasional electronic belch, and Composer Gottfried Michael Koenig, 32, whose Essay punctuated its eerie, sustained sonorities with harplike electronic roulades. But the high...