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Last week Johnny Stompanato whisked up to Lana's Beverly Hills home in his Thunderbird, went raging in for a showdown. Cheryl Crane heard her mother and Stompanato arguing in Lana's bedroom. "I'll get you if it takes a day, a week or a year!" cried Stompanato. "I'll cut you up. I'll stomp you, and if I can't do it myself, I'll find someone who can." Frightened Cheryl went to the kitchen, picked up a 10-in. butcher knife, went to the bedroom...
...threats, Rebel Fidel Castro vowed to start his vaunted "total war" this week against the regime of President Fulgencio Batista. As Cubans waited the call to a general strike and armed attacks, the usual wave of bombings and skirmishes gave way to ominous silence. Batista made ready for the showdown by asking his obedient Congress to vote him emergency powers, including the right to impose martial law, govern by decree, and use troops to meet any strike...
Rounding up Republican support for the primary election was something else again: Knight struggled for weeks against the growing power of San Francisco's G.O.P. Mayor George Christopher, who had his eyes set for the Senate, too. Last week in San Jose, at the showdown before the quasi-official Republican state assembly convention, Goodie took a handy edge toward full endorsement by his party for the primaries: the assembly's fact-finding committee handed him the whip by a vote of 29 to 7; all that remained was support by full vote of the entire assembly...
...Five-Year-Planner Mikhail Pervukhin, who voted against Khrushchev during last June's leadership showdown, was shipped off even before the elections to be Soviet Ambassador to East Germany. Question for Premier Bulganin, who also guessed wrong last summer: If one nomination meant East Germany, what did 15 portend...
...showdown, Chairman Kress will have a hard time overcoming the rebels. Since they are a majority of the foundation's trustees, they have 42% of the stock in their control, will need only a small number of proxies from other stockholders to gain a majority...