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Square Garden). At the state convention last June, Humphrey's regulars overwhelmingly defeated the Wallaceites, who sulkily withdrew to a rump convention of their own. Humphrey himself was nominated for the Senate by acclamation...
Lone Pocket. As the Israelis withdrew into Palestine, the Egyptians threw in the sponge. The two-week campaign, by Israeli claims, had cost the Egyptians 2,500 casualties (including 700 prisoners) and the loss of almost all their remaining toeholds in Palestine. Faluja, the one Egyptian pocket left within Israeli-held territory, had become a joke in Tel Aviv. Cracked cocky Israelis (who were being pressed for higher taxes and war loan contributions) : "We must turn the conduct of the war over to Finance Minister Kaplan-he knows how to empty pockets...
...that look like the suburbs of hell." Holding out a crucifix, Torquemada said: "Judas Iscariot sold Christ for 30 pieces of silver: Your Highness is about to sell Him for 30,000 ducats. Here He is; take Him and sell Him." He left the crucifix on a table and withdrew; shaken, the King declared that the edict would stand...
Lintner thinks that study of mistakes in past mortgage policies can forestall any impending ruin in the real estate field. When the last depression came on, he explains, bank lending policies were unwise. Heavy losses began to show up on real estate loans, and banks withdrew from the mortgage market. This was the time when risks on new loans were the smallest and the country needed willing mortgagers, Lintner explains...
...Russians last month embarrassed U. S. authorities by announcing the withdrawal of all their troops from the North. In this way they have made it appear that the U. S. is the only obstacle to reunification, the great hope of all Koreans. Attempting to disprove this, the U. S. withdrew one division from the South last week, in spite of Rhee's pleas. The situation for the U. S. now stands much as it did in China. Only through U. S. support can the rotten government sustain its control against the communist threat from the North. U. S. authorities realize...