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...situation. I guess should be done about it." St. Lawrence hock- George Menard after his humiliating 12-2 defeat by in the final game of the tournament here last month. , whose team lost to Michi-, 13 to 3, in the same last year, was referring annual East-West collegiate showdown--a one-sided the statistics show...
Already the seeds of Communism had been sown in Laos, and they would doubtless sprout and grow during any drawn-out peace conference. But in the long perspective of the battle for Southeast Asia, the Laotian showdown could sow important seeds of its own. The President had faced up to the crisis with great coolness and style. He was newly familiar with the face of the enemy on the battle line, and newly familiar with the weapons at his command. In leading an attack on free Asia, Nikita Khrushchev also contributed to the seasoning of the West's cold...
Round the green baize table in London's mirrored Lancaster House, Nkrumah. India's Nehru and Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa backed a proposal of Canada's Diefenbaker: they agreed not to press for a showdown on apartheid, provided that a communique permitted them to spell out. in general terms, their feelings about Verwoerd's racial policies...
PROXY FIGHT SHOWDOWN will come at the Alleghany Corp. annual meeting in May in the battle for the $5.5 billion holding company that controls the New York Central and Investors Diversified Services. Eleventh hour truce talks failed between Alleghany Chairman Allan P. Kirby (TIME, Dec. 12) and Brothers Clint W. Jr. and John Murchison. Both sides have already started soliciting proxies...
FLIGHT-ENGINEER STRIKE grounded hundreds of U.S. airline passengers. Though airlines hoped to get engineers back to work under 60-day Presidential mediation plan, strike is only first trouble for carriers as result of showdown fight between 3,500 engineers' union and Air Lines Pilot Association. National Mediation Board ordered engineers to merge with pilots' union, which engineers fear will cost them jobs...