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Thus did Maverick Levin and Incumbent O'Brien bring their hotly contested struggle for the control of MGM to a face-to-face showdown. During the months that it has raged, the battle has touched off at least six court suits, embroiled filmdom's leading producers, actors and exhibitors, and brought on a barrage of proxy-seeking entreaties that cost the two sides well over $500,000 between them. After the company's raucous four-hour annual meeting ended, the slow process of tallying up the votes of its shareowners finally got under way. The results...
...showdown came when Fertel fired a kitchen-worker who was unable to perform his old job because of swollen hands. The workers claimed that there was no reason for the firing. The kitchen-worker could have been transferred to a new job. They demanded that Fertel reinstate the kitchen-worker and Keady and that he recognize the union...
...every account, the 1925 trial of John T. Scopes, who was accused of teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee schools, is cited as a cultural showdown. The event pitted fundamentalists against religious skeptics, conservatives against radicals, fear of change against freedom of thought. According to the man who was at the center of the affair, it was even more than that. In this quietly amused memoir, John T. Scopes recalls it all as a hell...
...Harvard hockey team has played in a lot of big games already, but nothing that can match tonight's showdown with Boston University in the Beanpot Tournament...
...rancor from past struggles, however, neither side is anxious for a real crunching showdown. While Nasser may have succeeded in running Suez without the British, Mobutu knows that keeping Union Minière's complex operations going himself would be almost impossible. He has appealed to young Belgian technicians "of good will" to stay on the job, and the company is asking its managers to cooperate for the time being in running the mines. If nothing else, Union Minière is anxious not to drive Mobutu into nationalizing other extensive enterprises in the Congo owned by its parent...