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Some of his most telling blows were aimed at the Administration's global strategy: "We practically invited Soviet dominance over the free peoples of Eastern Europe . . . We deliberately withdrew our armies . . . permitting the advance of Soviet forces ... to plant the red flag of Communism on the ramparts ... of Western civilization...
...Both sides were still deadlocked over Phil Murray's insistence on the union shop, although there were some signs that management's opposition to this was cracking. Bethlehem Steel, which had been the first to break management's front in the 1949 strike, offered, then hastily withdrew, an informal compromise on the issue...
...Higher Power. In Warren, Ark., Auto Salesman Wayne Reaves hastily withdrew as a candidate for alderman after discovering that his opponent was none other than Lawrence Haynie, Reaves's boss...
...feud with his former ally, National Committeeman William H. Brennan. Their dispute was over local issues, but Ike's friends feared Brennan might join the Taft minority, split the delegation. Lodge succeeded in displacing Brennan as national committeeman with former Governor James C. Shannon. Lodge then withdrew his opposition to William A. Purtell, a Hartford businessman, who was nominated for U.S. Senator. In an atmosphere of uneasy harmony, brought .about by these moves, the Ike slate of delegates was elected...
...books of justice closed yesterday on the last two cases of the recent Pogo riot. The two students who originally appealed their one-day sentences to the House of Correction went back to East Cambridge Court and withdrew their cases...