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This year there are two Misters Big-and for good reason. Harry Guggenheim's Never Bend and Rex Ellsworth's Candy Spots already rank head-and-hindquarters above the rest of U.S. three-year-olds. When they meet for a showdown on May 4 at Churchill Downs, the race will be one of the year's great sports attractions...
Justice Department spokesmen had a ready explanation. Last fall three Negroes applied for admission to all-white Alabama, but so far they have been blocked by state authorities. Fearing a future integration showdown similar to the violent mob efforts to keep James Meredith out of the University of Mississippi, Justice asked for aerial photographs to help federal marshals prepare their strategy and tactics in advance. Said a Justice official: "There was sort of a critique on the University of Mississippi-a re-examination of everything we did there in case that kind of thing ever happened again. The marshals thought...
...Peking, for the Sino-Soviet quarrel has seemingly passed the point of no return (see box). As at the earlier congresses, Red China will have its own delegate in East Berlin ready to take the rostrum in Peking's defense. The stage was set for a noisy showdown...
Judging from the mood at the U.N. and in Washington, Tshombe will have plenty of other opportunities to signal his displeasure in coming weeks, for a showdown is rapidly shaping up. "Either the U.N. brings Tshombe to reason," fumed Robert K. A. Gardiner, top U.N. official in the Congo, "or it may as well get out right away. The longer we delay, the more we bring the U.N. into contempt." And, he might have added, the closer the U.N. moves to bankruptcy. It is already $76 million in the red from its 2½-year effort to reunify the Congo...
...serious challenge to Inonu's leadership, but the wily Premier had a powerful reply. He told the rebel sympathizers that he would quit if their petition was approved. That would bring back the army dictatorship. In the showdown vote, only ten delegates dared to oppose Inonu, and some 150 abstained. The rest obviously agreed that Ismet Inonu was still indispensable...