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...opoldville one long, hot day last week, the simmering conflict between the U.N. Command and Congolese Military Strongman Colonel Joseph Mobutu finally reached a showdown...
...stem the rising flow of U.S. gold and dollars to Europe. All along, Adenauer's government has stubbornly resisted making any direct contribution to the support of U.S. forces in Germany, on the ground that this would smack too much of the old Occupation days. But as his showdown talk with Anderson approached, the Chancellor was reportedly resigned to kicking in at least $125 million annually through some dodge labeling the money as a NATO contribution...
...showdown between partners, the bigger name usually wins. Moore recalls that when he played for Chaliapin, the great Russian bass used to ham up the end of Schumann's Die beiden Grenadiere with a great theatrical gesture, causing the pianist's Nachspiel to be lost in the applause. "There was nothing I could do," says Moore. "Chaliapin was a great big chap more than six feet tall...
Today's game with Yale according to pre-season opinion was going to be a showdown between two unbeaten teams for the Ivy League championship. That was before Ravenel got hurt...
Nixon lieutenants read off hopeful reports based on a survey of Republican leaders around the country, but a grimness hovered over the meeting. Only three weeks before the showdown, Richard Nixon's campaign was in trouble. His basic campaign theme-maturity and experience to cope with Khrushchev and keep the peace-had failed to stir any surge among the voters. The whiff of recession in the autumn air was weakening the second half of the G.O.P. "peace and prosperity" claim. Most worrisome of all was the mounting evidence of a wide Roman Catholic swing to Democrat Jack Kennedy...