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...desert in numbers large enough to allow a clean oppositionist sweep. For nothing less will give the Republicans control of the House and Senate and their first clear electoral victory since 1928. Nothing less than this sweep will pit one branch of the government against the other in a standoff...
...Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith, aware that Washington grants a courtesy immunity to all embassy personnel, refused to surrender Ruess. The Russians insisted. Ambassador Smith demanded an exit visa for his clerk. The Russians refused. Last week, with Clerk Ruess confined to Embassy grounds, the khuligan crisis was at a standoff. Meanwhile, spy-suspect Redin, under $10,000 bail bond, was awaiting trial (on June...
...that the war would still be on. But when Gallup asked voters whom they would vote for if the war were over by election time, Dewey led Roosevelt by a wide margin: 58%-to-42%, after eliminating the undecided. FORTUNE'S most closely comparable question shows a near-standoff: 44% for Roosevelt, 43.5% for the "best Republican." But FORTUNE'S question had the proviso "if the war, is over but the peace terms not settled." By so much is the war and its complete winding up the dominating factor of the 1944 Presidential election...
...ironclads in the U.S. Civil War. Less than 24 hours after the South's armored Merrimac had attacked the North's wooden fleet at Hampton Roads, the Yankee Monitor, an armored "cheesebox" invented by John Ericcson, hove into cannon range. They slugged each other to a standoff...
...Small Boy. While Giants Boykoff (17 points) and Komenich (20 points) battled each other almost to a standoff, Sailors was all over the court, again & again drove like a P-38 through the St. John's team to pour the ball through the basket. With two minutes to play, St. John's, eight points behind, seemed beaten. But it was not quite...