Word: preference
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Bankruptcy Preferred? While Vickers could force Capital out of business by foreclosing, Capital would prefer to file bankruptcy proceedings before this happened. This could block Vickers' recovery of its planes, give Capital more time to solve its problems. Last week, after a seven-hour meeting with Capital directors to discuss "our serious crisis." President David H. Baker announced that there would be "no interruption in the line's service...
Before Britons' eyes, the glitter of the wedding was fading. Even the palace itself seems determined to downgrade it. For the first time in the memory of protocol experts, civilian guests will be permitted to wear lounge suits if they do not prefer to honor the occasion with morning dress. The route to and from Westminster Abbey will be so short-it can be walked in seven minutes-that the waiting crowds will have little opportunity to cheer. Royalty abroad was behaving coolly. Margaret's closest European relative, King Olaf of Norway, sent his regrets and those...
...sport's aristocrats are the ''free divers." Spurning any line to the surface, they go down with tanks of compressed air strapped to their backs, a rubber mouthpiece between their teeth, and froglike fins on their feet. Experienced free divers-some prefer the term "scuba,"' for "self-contained underwater breathing apparatus'"-can cruise as deep as 130 ft. for up to 15 min. or at 40 ft. for two hours...
...celebrated Scopes "Monkey Trial" shocked the world, and a full 35 years later, the state of Washington's supervisor of curriculum guides, John M. Howell, announced: "Now, of course, no one really believes the Darwinian theory ... If Darwinian evolution is true, then the Bible is untrue, and I prefer to hold by the Old Book rather than to accept a worthless theory...
Westerns & Thrillers. In the hope that he will get practice in governing, Colonial Secretary Macleod is trying to persuade Mboya to take one of the three major Cabinet posts that will be handed over to Africans after next year's elections. But Mboya will probably prefer to snipe from outside, from the security of the second-floor offices in Nairobi, which are the headquarters of his People's Convention Party and of the Kenya Federation of Labor...