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...other cyclists. French police restored order temporarily as Bartali remounted, but his teammates behind were pelted with stones and tomatoes when they pumped to the scene. Farther on, Bartali was nearly edged over a precipice by a speeding car. He won the lap, but he had had enough. He withdrew from the race and took his 16-man team with...
...mediation session last week, the W-T & S management offered job security and union security clauses like those in the New York Times contract. The Guild replied that it would accept the entire Times contract, but not just its "worst features." Management withdrew its offer. It also took a full-page ad in the Times, restating Editor Roy W. Howard's objection to any kind of editorial Guild shop as "prejudicial to . . . objectivity...
...attacked by the best Red division, supported by 40 tanks, which were extremely skillfully maneuvered. The ratio of troops engaged was more than eight to one against the American forces. For more than six hours the American forces held off the invaders until their ammunition was exhausted, and then withdrew . . . The American forces were being enveloped on both flanks. {They} were confronted with a resourceful Red commander who skillfully applied frontal pressure with envelopment...
Both the U.S. and Russia withdrew their troops. Both proceeded to train local armies. The Communist army in the north was known to be at least 95,000 strong to be equipped with heavy artillery, tanks and planes. The U.S.-trained army in the south, numerically about equal to the Northern force, had lately begun to look good to its U.S. advisers (TIME, June 5). But it had virtually no military planes or tanks. Presumably somebody had thought that none would be needed...
...people who won with it. "Do you think that was the right thing to do?" she asked the convention. There were scattered yes's and no's. "Couldn't a pretense have been made," she asked again, "that a few of you wanted me?" Then she withdrew from the race...