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Conclusion. Postponing preparations for a possible showdown beyond a 1953 deadline is a disguised policy of drift; it is just waiting for the atomic dust to settle on Chicago...
...these possibilities are dangerous, but the second-intensive preparation for a showdown by 1953-seems the least perilous of the three. This path has, however, a special pitfall which could make it the most dangerous of all. If the U.S. and its Allies do not start intensive defense preparations immediately, or if they adopt half-measures, or if they are lulled by Russian conciliatory gestures into stopping halfway, then they will place themselves in a worse position than their present...
Once Mrs. Alice Fox and Mrs. Katherine Rollo were friendly next-door neighbors, but the friendship didn't last. They started a spite quarrel for reasons that their neighbors in the Long Hill housing development in Waterbury, Conn, never did get clear. The showdown came when Mrs. Fox ran outside to tell Mrs. Rollo a thing or two and, to punctuate her lecture, kicked her in the stomach...
Finally on April 21, the showdown came. The Regents voted 21 to 1 to accept a compromise proposal drafted by the Council of the California Alumni Association. Instead of signing the special oath required by the Regents, university employees would now sign with their new contracts the statement...
...come to the chamber to cast his vote on one of the most perplexing questions before the 81st Congress: How far should the Federal Government go in guaranteeing the rights of all its citizens? The Senate was about to face a showdown on the Fair Employment Practices bill-the measure which would make the nation's employers liable to fines and possible imprisonment if they were found guilty of discriminating against their workers on account of race or religion...