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...need three," I insisted. I was losing ground. I needed to compromise. "If it comes to a showdown between Taft and Eisenhower, I'll vote for Eisenhower...
After demanding, among other things, an examination of Benton's income-tax returns, McCarthy hurried off to catch a plane. His tactics spared the Senate the embarrassment of a showdown on the issue; it unanimously (60 to 0) ordered the Gillette subcommittee to continue investigating McCarthy and referred the Benton case to the full committee. But McCarthy's enemies were delighted, nevertheless; they thought they had caught their man in a serious blunder. They figured it would be easier for the subcommittee to go ahead with a businesslike investigation of Republican McCarthy if it were also looking into...
...month as Premier of France, wispy-looking Antoine Pinay, 60, had lost nine pounds. Most of it he lost preparing for the showdown that came last week over France's 1952 budget. He well knew that the budget had been the downfall of his two predecessors-René Pleven and Edgar Faure. They tried to balance the budget by taxing more; he proposed to do it by spending less. His simple suggestion had a staggering success...
...head of the government. But the sergeant upped himself to colonel and chief of staff, and fired almost the entire army officers' corps. The ousted officers holed up in the National Hotel. Batista sent soldiers to disarm them. Welles, who lived at the hotel, stopped that showdown by seating himself midway between the rival forces in the long lobby and imperturbably discussing Emily Dickinson's poetry with Adviser Adolf Berle until the soldiers withdrew. But 25 days later, fighting broke out at the hotel. After Batista's soldiers had lobbed 200 shells into the building, the officers...
...followers thirsted for the plums of office. At the height of the caucus debate, the general turned on his loyal lieutenant, Edmond Barrachin: "Without me, sir, you would not be a Deputy." Snapped Barrachin: "Without you, mon Général, I would be a Minister." When the showdown came, Barrachin toed the party line, but 27 other Gaullists bolted. They were still right-wingers, but they felt that the time had come to play more than a negative role. Their votes in the Assembly put into the premiership an all-but-unknown minister named Antoine Pinay, a conservative...