Word: showdowns
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...Prime Minister Clement Attlee for a general election this fall. Tories feel they have a fresh talking point in British failure in Iran, are sure they can tip the balance of power to their side. Labor's own left wing, led by rambunctious Nye Bevan, would like a showdown before the government makes more commitments for defense at the expense of the welfare state...
...representatives of Russia's Tass news agency make a great show of acting like reporters. But last week such members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors as Columnist David Lawrence and Scripps-Howard Editor Walker Stone thought it was time for a showdown on the question: Are Tassmen in the U.S. bona fide reporters or simply Russian agents gathering intelligence material for Russia's vast espionage system...
...with a hand grenade taped to his shoulder harness. Almost from the moment the truce talks started in "neutral" Kaesong, General Matt Ridgway had chafed under a sense of an intolerable situation. The choice was to accept a long-drawn-out negotiation and daily humiliation, or to force a showdown...
...real showdown on the Munoz plan occurred last fall, when lunatic-fringe Nationalists tried to assassinate President Truman and Governor Munoz to block registration for this week's vote. Horrified, Puerto Ricans repudiated the Nationalists. Now serving a sentence of seven to 15 years for his part in the plot, Nationalist Boss Pedro Albizu Campos was under examination by psychiatrists last week to determine whether he is sane...
...walnut-paneled room high in a Chicago office building one morning last week, Fowler McCormick, 52, International Harvester Co.'s chairman and big stockholder, met his board of directors for a showdown. The directors wanted to make President John Lawrence McCaffrey top dog in the company, turn the chairmanship into an advisory post. McCormick opposed the change, but the directors approved it anyway. Promptly McCormick resigned as chairman (but not as a director). For the first time since 1831, when Fowler McCormick's grandfather Cyrus introduced the reaper, the largest U.S. maker of agricultural equipment had no McCormick...