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...bell, Slugger McCarthy took off as scheduled on a Midwestern speaking tour, hoping that a change of pace and of subject would help him recover from damage done by the Army's chronicle of the case of Private David Schine. But the bell came too late to avert physical exhaustion: two days later Joe McCarthy was stricken with a virus laryngitis and a lively fever...
...away with this "colonial status" and to speed up land reform with no compensation to the disliked landlords. East Pakistanis responded by voting the many-sided opposition local control of half of Pakistan. Mohammed Ali, a shrewd politician, had taken to East Pakistan's hustings in person to avert a rout, but not in time. This week he met Suhrawardy to lay the groundwork for settling East Pakistan's legitimate grievances. The alternative: a mounting East Pakistan demand for provincial autonomy on domestic issues, which would divide the nation in politics as it is now divided by geography...
According to the semi-official publication, the Defense Department is expected to modify its budget currently before the House Appropriations Committee, in order to avert the threatened force-out of about 5,000 Army Reserve officers...
...this year (TIME, Jan. 11). However, Clark still insisted that there were more danger signals than there were for the minor 1949 setback, and that only a cut in taxes or an increase in Government spending big enough to create a federal deficit of $20 billion a year, would avert disaster...
...second game, Bobby Dean, varsity soccer team captain, scored the Bunnies' goal to avert a shutout...