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...markets were closed down for three days to give the West's industrial nations, the so-called Group of Ten, a chance to solve the crisis. After three days of almost nonstop sessions in Bonn, the financial experts emerged confident that they had found the solution. In a showdown, the West Germans refused to revalue the mark...
Yale is defending champion, trying to become the first team in League history to put together back-to-back perfect seasons. Harvard has come from nowhere, a pre-season second division pick, to overcome eight opponents and force this showdown...
...side-your-side formula, but they clung to some corollaries of their own-most important, their contention that they should speak for the allied delegation once talks began. The Americans regarded that as a nostalgic and unrealistic notion, and refused to believe that Saigon meant it. Thus, when the showdown came in October, the South Vietnamese and the Americans suddenly discovered that they had misunderstood each other all along. The U.S. claimed that Saigon had backed out on the bargain at the last minute; the South Vietnamese maintained that they had never agreed to the deal in the first place...
Rule or Burn. The move never came, but neither did Hussein's expected crack down. Instead, the king and the fedayeen leaders had a tense and angry showdown in a two-hour meeting in Amman's military headquarters. Hussein, wearing the uniform of Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, angrily opened the meeting: "If I don't rule this country, then I shall burn it." In reply, the fedayeen leaders pointedly reminded the king of their own strength...
COLUMBIA, 29-7: In this big showdown between two outstanding quarterbacks, Dowling completely overshadowed the Lions' Marty Domres. Yale outgained Columbia, 462 yards to a paltry 102. Hill and Dowling both threw TD passes, while the defensive line held the Lions to a first quarter score...