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...seven weeks racial tensions had mounted in Memphis, as the city's garbage strike escalated into a showdown between Mayor Henry Loeb and more than 200,000 Negroes seeking economic parity with whites. Last week black blues erupted into violence when militants got the opportunity they had been seeking. It was given to them by Dr. Martin Luther King...
Perhaps so. But it will also demonstrate that many voters--including Republicans--wouldn't like to see a Nixon. Johnson showdown in November...
...prospects of a disastrous Kennedy-McCarthy showdown in Oregon, Nebraska or Indiana now seem high. Even if Johnson does not win outright victories in these primary states, the anti-war financial support as well as staff will be badly split. The dream of the anti-war forces, a joint Kennedy-McCarthy attack on the President's policy, is melting in the heat of success. McCarthy seems more than a little annoyed at Kennedy's haste, and remarks half-whimsically that, "the track is getting a little crowded," while Kennedy supporters quietly insist that the Minnesota Senator will be forced...
...Harvard-Yale showdown loomed as the biggest test of the season for both teams, as the Eastern League and Big Three titles depended on the outcome. Two weeks before the match Junta began to talk quietly to each team member about the importance of winning against Yale. The Bulldogs had breezed through their schedule and were patiently waiting to polish off their Cambridge rivals. Harvard had won for the last two years and the Elis were bent on revenge...
...light of these new doubts, the impending showdown at Khesanh raises the disturbing spectre of nuclear warfare. Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee early this month. General Earle Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stated the problem bluntly. If faced with a choice between losing Khesanh and using nuclear weapons, Wheeler reportedly said, the Pentagon would recommend "bringing in the nukes...