Word: favors
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...blitz pressing the issues of inflation and high taxes. He supports the Kemp-Roth proposal for a 30% cut in federal income tax rates. Boschwitz has won support from environmentalists by backing strong restrictions on motorboats in northern Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area. He has gained favor among right-to-lifers by offering to introduce a constitutional amendment prohibiting abortion except in the case of rape or incest or when necessary to save the mother's life. These are issues on which Anderson has alienated voters by trying to compromise...
OHIO. Silver-haired and flannel-tongued Republican James Rhodes, 69, who has already served an unprecedented twelve years as Ohio's Governor, has gained considerable favor with voters by driving his own car to work, jawboning his way through all of Ohio's 88 counties and living in his own home (he says he would like to sell the Governor's mansion...
...legislation. Says Ravenel: "The pattern of Thurmond's positions has been to resist things like integration, things like Social Security, things like Medicaid. This is a pattern I think the state of South Carolina has outgrown." Even at the cost of votes, Ravenel has come out in favor of the Panama Canal treaties and the Senate version of the Labor Law Reform bill, which is highly unpopular among most South Carolina voters because they believe it would promote unionization of the state's textile and other industries. But on fiscal matters he is more attuned to the Deep...
...Food Services Department announced yesterday that it was dropping Nestle as its hot chocolate supplier in favor of a cheaper brand that allegedly scored higher in student taste tests. Food Services is keeping Nestle's ice tea, however, so the decision was a marshmallow dressed up with Harvard's famed public relations timing...
Many alumni were aware of the forthcoming Capital Fund Drive, although there has not yet been any official announcement. Wayne P. Libhart '51 said he is in favor of the Capital Drive, because Harvard needs to "get out from under the yoke of Washington...