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Until Dunster's 3-1 win, Eliot and previously unbeaten Lowell appeared headed for another showdown on the last day of the season. Last year Lowell bumped off Eliot in the final playoff game, 1-0, and made the Elephants thirst for revenge...
...Line-Up. In such a showdown, Nasser could count on Algeria, Syria, Iraq and Sallal's part of Yemen-all more or less socialist, Soviet-armed regimes. Feisal would have on his side Western-equipped Jordan, Bahrain, the tiny sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf, and perhaps Morocco, Tunisia and Kuwait. Non-Arab Iran, whose Shah despises Nasser, would probably aid Feisal enthusiastically. Anxious to remain neutral are Lebanon, Libya and the Sudan. But it may never come to a showdown. The meeting around a fire...
...infected most other levels of Government, but there is constant and abrasive speculation over what officials are in which camp. Some authorities-inside the White House as well as out-got to talking one recent evening about bedrock allegiances in the Cabinet. Their remarkable conclusion was that in the showdown Bobby would ultimately command the loyalties of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall, United Nations Ambassador Arthur Goldberg and even Housing and Urban Development Secretary Robert Weaver, despite the harsh treatment that Kennedy subjected...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). The Tin Star (1957), starring Henry Fonda as a onetime sheriff turned bounty hunter who is drawn into a showdown of strength-between a gunman and an inexperienced lawman, played by Tony Perkins...
...taped for syndication, is carried weekly in three cities across the country and 21 more will be added in September. His syndicated radio interviews play daily in 254 cities, with an average ten new stations signing up each week. In addition, Pyne is host of NBC's daily Showdown, a typically mindless daytime quiz game. Blond, seldom-smiling Joseph Pyne, 41, is on the air altogether 27 hours a week, earns about $200,000 a year...