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Pella showed great political skill in moving in first for a showdown with his own party; for neither De Gasperi nor the heads of other factions in the party were ready for Pella to fall. This week Pella called in newspapermen and confidently announced that the "transition government" phase was over; in the new year he would set up a new kind of government with new men, pledged to 1) better distribution of wealth; 2) better housing; 3) defense of the state; 4) working toward "truly international solidarity...
...Manhattan newspaper strike was something new in the history of U.S. journalism. Never had newspaper unions lined up so solidly for a showdown fight, and never had metropolitan newspapers been so united to meet them. When the strike of 400 photoengravers first started and 20,000 other newspaper employees* refused to cross their picket lines (TIME, Dec. 7), both sides expected the dispute to end quickly. They were wrong. The strike dragged on for eleven days as New Yorkers tried all manner of stunts to get news without newspapers (see below). Not until this week did it look...
...painful dialogue with itself sputtered and droned in the public amphitheater of parliament. The National Assembly, after months of deliberately avoiding a decision, was being asked to hint-timidly and tentatively-whether it will vote for or against the six-nation European Army and German rearmament when the real showdown comes early next year...
...They were supposed to give me an honorary degree, but I was too young"), Schwinger believes that his present work will be the most significant. To a layman he can explain it only in generalities. The gist of his effort is to force modern physics to a showdown. The present physical theories are so complicated that they need an enormous amount of experimental work to check their validity. Schwinger aims to recast quantum mechanics so that these physical theories, if false, would reduce to self-contradictions...
There is another change, corollary of the first: President Truman had open to him a course of action not open to Eisenhower. If the international situation degenerated too far, Truman could have threatened the Soviet Union with atomic war, forcing a showdown that might have included atomic disarmament and/or control. Eisenhower cannot do this because a U.S. threat of atomic attack can now be met by a Soviet atomic counterthreat...