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After building up to a hair-raising climax, the long-awaited showdown in the fight for control of Fairbanks, Morse & Co. left everyone still in suspense. In Chicago last week, the company's annual meeting was held as scheduled, but it produced no winner. Led by President Robert H. Morse Jr., F-M's management hurled a lawsuit against Financier Leopold Silberstein and his Penn-Texas Corp., alleged that Silberstein acquired thousands of F-M shares and voting rights "illegally" through Swiss banks and other mysterious sources (TIME, March 25), is not entitled to vote them. Hearing...
...force must remain until a peace settlement and safeguard freepassage." Nonetheless Ben-Gurion was ready to settle: "The problem of Israel's security has become a question of conscience for very many states . . . The President of the U.S. has assumed a moral responsibility toward Israel." On the showdown no-confidence motion, the Prime Minister won a decisive 84-to-25 victory...
...Then he tried to force the council's hand by asking it to vote on whether he could remain. Pressman's request was denied; he and his crew were bounced by the sergeant at arms. But the furor brought top New York broadcasting brass together for a showdown with the council...
...were arrested on the roads and herded into jails on cooked-up charges. The Negroes still refused to ride the buses. "We must smash this boycott," said Transport Minister Ben Schoeman. "It's only a test by the African National Congress of its power. If they want a showdown, they'll get it." But when one big Johannesburg chain store, accepting the government's get-tough advice, threatened to fire three Negroes for coming late to work, a strong hint of boycott by its customers changed its mind...
...each the count's surrogate offers what love he can; from each he gleans a peculiar sense of life's purpose. When the real count gets wind of an inheritance windfall and returns to claim it, the stage is set for a showdown that is also something of a letdown. Author Du Maurier stuffs her novel with eccentric servants, eavesdroppers, potential murders, apparent suicides, strangely worded wills. For a romantic setting there is the 17th century chateau of St. Gilles, not unlike Daphne Du Maurier's own sprawling, 70-room Menabilly House on the Cornish coast, great...