Word: showdowns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mohammed formed a Greater Somali League to rival Issa's Somali Youth League, and charged that Issa favored a Little Somalia, confined to Italian Somaliland, because he feared his Hawiya tribe would be swamped in a state that brought 3,000,000 Somalis together. On the eve of showdown elections last spring, Haji Mohammed was refused permission to lead a parade of his partisans in Mogadiscio. "The blood is on the government's head if blood is spilled," he cried. Next day Haji Mohammed was arrested, two of his followers died and 16 more were hurt in rioting...
News of this showdown leaked to the papers, but the Dominicans stupidly dismissed it as war-of-nerves propaganda. "Forward, Henry!" chattered the Dominican radio. "Contrary to the allegations of Fidel, Morgan is in Las Villas at the head of the counter-revolution...
...Paulo, Brazil last week, under the sleek, concrete shell of the Ibirapuera Park pavilion, 400 delegates and observers of the 18th General Council of the World Presbyterian Alliance waited for the showdown. Even before the first session began, the delegates (representing 76 Reformed and Presbyterian church bodies with more than 45 million members) shifted their interest from theology to a theologian. In the limelight: Czechoslovakia's Dr. Joseph Hromadka, 70, wartime lecturer at Princeton, dean of Prague's Communist-controlled Amos Comenius Theological Faculty, a wheel in the World Council of Churches and a vice president...
Weyland commanded the hands-tied Far Eastern U.S. and U.N. air forces in Korea, then, as head of the Air Force's Tactical Air Command, pioneered the high-mobility, nuclear-tipped, composite air-strike forces that got their showdown test when they were flown to support U.S. diplomacy in Lebanon and Quemoy (TIME, July 28, 1958 et seq.). Said he: "TAC never has had priority, like SAC. TAG had to make do with what it could get, and by God, we have...
Except for some bracing outdoor scenes, shot in southern Arizona, of amber plains, crystalline streams and Corot-cool forests, strikingly composed by Director John (The Old Man and the Sea) Sturges, the picture is mostly one long, gun-slinging showdown that fairly oozes blood and bathos. One tough gets his right through a poker table, another is mowed down by a sawed-o^ shotgun at close range. The hell-bent kid is killed by mistake by one of his own saddle-bum chums...