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Since G.M.'s contract expires May 29, and Ford's on June 1, the showdown-and possible strike-will come by early summer. In Detroit, automen were betting that a strike, if called, would be against Ford only, because Ford's 135,000 members would cost the U.A.W. little more than a third of the union benefits required for G.M.'s 325,000 members...
...showdown neared in his fight with Louis Wolfson for control of Montgomery Ward, Sewell Avery threw in his shock troops last week. Two thousand employees called on Ward stockholders, asked them to support the boss. Claimed the company: in some areas just under 90% of the stockholders backed Avery...
...good-will visit to the U.S., Italy's careful little Premier, Mario Scelba, faced trouble inside his precarious four-party coalition government. Two small groups in the coalition were quarreling, and the Christian Democrats' own ambitious and powerful secretary-general, Amintore Fanfani, was demanding an immediate showdown (TIME, March...
Secretary-General Fanfani could see that these words carried weight with the Demo-Christian elders, and that in a showdown Fanfani, and not Scelba, would be beaten. So Fanfani executed a hasty but fairly graceful retreat. When the delegates drafted and passed a warm resolution praising Scelba and his coalition, Fanfani chimed in with a show of enthusiasm...
...addition to their obvious advantages in manpower and resources, the Arab states are steadily modernizing their military forces and war industries. Already they are spending more for military purposes alone than the Israelis do for all governmental expenses. As the Arabs grow stronger, the temptation to seek another military showdown with Israel may become irresistible. And the densely-populated Israeli coastal strip, between the Mediterranean and the Jordan border, has an average width of less than twenty miles...