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...adroit maneuvering, Evatt managed to postpone the showdown until this week. But whether the vote went for or against Dr. Evatt, the chief loser would be the Labor Party as a whole. Said a well-pleased Cabinet minister of the Liberal government: "We've never been so well in the saddle in 30 years...
...hawsers. In the corridors of the Palais Bourbon, said one who was present, "there was so much grappling with souls that you could weigh them." But the tocsin summoned the Deputies, and, in a mood that one French newspaper called "obvious resignation and embarrassment," they assembled for the showdown...
DEPARTMENT STORES are getting ready for a showdown price war with discount houses. In St. Louis the three biggest department stores slashed prices to discount-house levels, but continued such services as free delivery and charge accounts. In Detroit and other cities department stores are also cutting prices to meet the discounters' competition. Predicted the National Retail Dry Goods Association: the price wars will spread...
Crackdown followed showdown in Guatemala last week. Having weathered a stormy counterrevolt of army officers who hankered after another change (TIME, Aug. 16), Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas finally struck at Guatemalan Communism with the sort of command decisions his followers have been demanding since the June revolution...
Once upon a time a multitude of souls, sick & tired of living in eternity, decided to visit God and demand a showdown...