Word: favors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evidence and hammering out conclusions. The report's basic message: the U.S.. with perhaps a two-year clear superiority in striking power, is rapidly losing its lead over the U.S.S.R. in the military race. "Unless present trends are reversed, the world balance of power will shift in favor of the Soviet bloc. If that should happen, we are not likely to be given another chance to remedy our failings. However, it is emphatically not too late if we are prepared to make the required big effort now and in the years ahead...
...awareness of strong political pressure. There has been mounting nervousness in Britain over the fact that U.S. planes carrying hydrogen bombs fly out of British bases. Such nervousness has prompted widespread demands for new East-West talks. In London, reported the Gallup poll last week, 51% of the population favor an Eisenhower-Khrushchev meeting, only 24% are opposed...
...pact to halt nuclear tests. Whether such action be taken in the expanded United Nations Disarmament Commission, at a foreign ministers' meeting, or at the summit, it would represent the best antidote to the present tension. Although AEC Chairman Strauss has kept up a constant campaign in favor of the tests, his stand can be overruled and he may well be out of a job in June. It will be a more difficult job to unfreeze John Foster Dulles, but even he cannot sit tight forever in a world that is constantly moving...
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, professor of History, scored research foundations for what he termed their bias in favor of behaviorial sciences and against history at a December 30 convention of the American Historical Association in New York...
...imposing a meaning-democratic, economic, social -on the rich diversity of America. Lerner argues merely that the diversity is the meaning, itself an insight but scarcely a major or original one. Trying valiantly to be Olympian, Lerner has suppressed his more obvious former prejudices-except perhaps the prejudice in favor of the strangely arid, yet emotionally pompous sociologist's view of man. The trouble is that little except diligence seems left of Pundit Lerner once the prejudice is gone. His middle-of-the-road stance leaves him not only free of bias but bereft of viewpoint. The middle...