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Looking at the whole chessboard, Stalin & Co. saw that the anti-Communist strength of Western Europe was building up dramatically, thanks to EGA and MAP (Military Assistance Program). The efforts of the European and U.S. Communist Parties to sabotage this buildup had failed. It was the Kremlin's turn to move, and the move was obvious and long-prepared-Formosa...
...Page One headlines ready. But twice Benedict Macri broke his date with Winchell. Apologized a go-between: "Please, Mr. Winchell, we got him in such a deep freeze that it's not easy to dig him up." Then, on his radio broadcast last week, Winchell finished his buildup; he announced that he would turn Benedict Macri in to the cops that very night. About 10:50 p.m., a black coupé pulled up alongside the waiting columnist on a street in downtown Manhattan. After identifying himself, Winchell added: "Benedict, I am sorry to meet you under these circumstances." Replied...
...cold war against Communism. The North Atlantic Council in London made a decision that lifted the West's alliance off its neat, stiff treaty paper and pushed it toward organizational reality. The council's communiqué spoke of "the creation of balanced collective forces in the progressive buildup of the defense of the North Atlantic area...
...seventh boy. My mother had six sons, and when the seventh was coming, they thought it would be a boy, but it turned out to be a girl. So papa said, 'Well mama, I guess we have to try again.'" Unfortunately, the second try resulted in a similar buildup, and a similar let down...
...buildup was satisfying and 19,000 people paid $108,000 to get into Los Angeles' Wrigley Field. The question was whether it would be a show or a contest. Champion Williams had beaten Bolanos twice before-but the second time Williams had absorbed a stomach pounding and had won on a split decision. Last week there seemed to be an outside chance that Bolanos, an earnest, resourceful fighter, might tag Williams with a damaging shot or shade him on points...