Word: showdowns
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Reddened Windows. The showdown began on Wednesday night, when Kishi summoned a Cabinet meeting in his official residence across from the white granite Diet building. As the 17 ministers assembled shortly after midnight, the windows were reddened by the glare of flames from police trucks set ablaze by 14,000 rioters outside. They could hear the howl of the mob as it acclaimed the martyrdom of a 22-year-old coed named Michiko Kamba, who had been trampled as the stone-throwing mob reeled backward under the charge of 4,000 nightstick-swinging policemen...
Collision Course. The spreading sickness has brought on a showdown in the bitter feud between Clarence N. Sayen, boss of the gold-plated Air Line Pilots Association and Federal Aviation Agency Chief Elwood ("Pete") Quesada (TIME, June 20). What sparked the showdown is a dispute over where the FAA inspectors sit in the new jetliners. Quesada says they must have the forward observer's seat (across from the flight engineer's seat) so that they can see if the pilot is obeying FAA rules. But Sayen maintains that that seat is reserved for the third pilot, issued...
Parliamentary democracy. Japanese-style, makes even the convening of the Diet an occasion for free-for-alls in which any number may play. When the bell sounded for the showdown session, 200 opposition Deputies massed outside the office of wispy Speaker Ichiro Kiyose, 76, blocking the corridor so solidly that he could not get out to call the session to order. Kiyose called the police. On signal, 500 cops entered, picked up the Socialists and carried them kicking and struggling from Kiyose's door. The Speaker made a run for the chamber only to be met there by more...
...while a neglected teen-age son keeps hoping for more from papa than a quick pat on the back, and a sophisticated elderly actress drops by to deliver a few verbal lefts to the chin. In time the wife becomes a sufficiently aware and impatient Griselda to force a showdown with the mistress, only for the two women to find confederacy more sensible than civil...
...destruction of atomic weapons would simply restore military primacy to the nation with the most potent conventional armed forces. Staunchly convinced that Europe's future depends upon the close collaboration of France with Germany, he gave Prime Minister Harold Macmillan little sympathy in his plea for a showdown in establishment of the Common Market...