Word: counterattacks
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...counterattack attempts to deal with realities. Instead of a smelter, it calls for the construction of tin ore concentration plants to step up the ore-metal percentage. U.S. conditions for the loan are tough but businesslike. In addition to laying off some 8,000 nonproductive workers, the government must promise to divide its tin corporation, Comibol, into several separate government-owned companies operating under guidance of competent foreign consultants...
...quick, Kennedy rejected any aspersions on his patriotism, and the campaign began to get more intense at long last. In Bristol, Tenn., Kennedy's voice was icy. "I support the President." he said. "I did not need to be reminded of that yesterday." But the Nixon counterattack continued, and several reporters thought they saw a return of the old Nixon campaigning style. Kennedy, said Nixon in Springfield, Mo., "is just as strong in his opposition to Communism as I am, but because of his lack of knowledge and experience, he urged a course of action [for President Eisenhower...
...there was plenty of o'erwhelming still to come. The Southern filibuster, aimed at blocking passage of a civil rights bill, had begun (TIME, Feb. 29). To wear it down, Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Minority Leader Everett Dirksen kept the Senate in round-the-clock session. In counterattack the Southerners kept their colleagues coming and going all through the night with regular quorum calls. Meanwhile Texas' Johnson was hard at work doing what comes most naturally: dealing, persuading, cajoling-all in an effort to shape a meaningful moderate bill whose basic purpose is to guarantee Negro voting...
...American Bar Association in a great many years." argued New Mexico's Ross Malone, past president of the A.B.A., before the Association's House of Delegates meeting in tense session in Chicago last week. Malone, braving a few whistles and catcalls, was leading an impassioned counterattack against a guerrilla action led by Seattle's Frank Holman. also an A.B.A. past president (1948-49), to throw a roadblock into A.B.A.'s program to make world rule of law a reality...
...facade of married bliss. To seal the bargain, he gave her a new Cadillac. In September, Carole left her husband, a muscleman named Jimmy Pappa, who proceeded to give Barbara Finch an earful about Bernie's other life. Barbara then decided to start divorce proceedings herself. As a counterattack, Finch explained, he hired an "unscrupulous gigolo." John Cody was engaged, he said, to "get something" on Barbara "if he had to sleep with her himself...