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...argued, the government must do its part by refusing to increase its spending by so much as a penny. His opponents, keenly aware of the votes that could be lost by cutting family allowances, retorted that the amount involved was trifling-less than 1% of the projected budget. The showdown came at a late-night Cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street. Peter Thorneycroft found all 17 of the other ministers present arrayed against him. Taut and white-faced, he announced that the Prime Minister would have his resignation forthwith...
...Guatemala's sizzling presidential election campaign neared the Jan. 19 voting showdown this week, the candidates and the issues were clearly outlined in a glare of publicity, but the outcome was still shrouded in shadowy doubt. Running neck and neck were three top candidates...
...Cell Game. Khrushchev's Presidium rivals thought Khrushchev was overdoing it. They had thought so ever since he rose in the Kremlin's Great Hall at the 20th Party Congress in 1956 to deliver his weeping, three-hour indictment of Stalin as a "murderer" and "maniac." They sprang their showdown last June, and it was a close thing. The majority present voted to deny Khrushchev the chair, and Bulganin took over. Did the Old Guard think that because they had destroyed Stalin's police power, they could vote Khrushchev freely out of his job as they had voted Malenkov...
Dulles-Stassen Showdown Foreseen...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5--A showdown is expected in the National Security Council this week between Secretary of State Dulles and Harold E. Stassen on future U.S. disarmament policy. It may come tomorrow...