Word: showdowns
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...drive a wedge into the NATO powers, who would have to line up on different sides of such a resolution. Ham marskjold gambled that the Russians would extract every possible drop of propaganda advantage from their bluster but that they would not oppose the African states in a showdown-and perhaps he got a wink that told...
...open intervention in politics, which evoked uneasy memories of his headstrong father, ex-King Leopold, King Baudouin had aroused the resentment even of politicians opposed to Eyskens. At week's end, playing for time, Eyskens promised a Cabinet reshuffle, called Parliament back into session for a showdown confidence vote this week...
...rigors of the trials were over, the showdown at Rome was still a fortnight away, but the U.S. Olympic men's track and field team was in no relaxing mood. The big idea at the final tune-up meet at California's Mount San Antonio Col lege, explained Hammer Thrower Hal Connolly, was "to go over there to Rome with something to scare 'em with." The scare was there: in one evening the U.S. stars broke four world records and tied two more...
California All-Star Rodeo (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A corralful of the nation's top broncobusters stage a Salinas showdown...
...implied threat of a showdown decided Nixon on a course of action that he had been turning over in his mind ever since the Democratic Convention nominated the Kennedy-Johnson ticket: a face-to-face conference with Rockefeller. Without ever discussing his plan with his staff, Nixon got New York Lawyer Herbert Brownell, Tom Dewey's (1944 and 1948) campaign manager and Attorney General in the original Eisenhower Cabinet, to call Rockefeller to arrange a meeting. Brownell suggested that the meeting take place at his home in Manhattan, but, on the telephoned advice of his staff ers in Chicago, Rockefeller...