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Through five weeks of debate and backroom maneuvering, the Israelis strove desperately to stave off the vote. Premier David Ben-Gurion denied outright that the raiders were Israeli soldiers, as alleged by the U.N. truce supervision chief, Denmark's Major General Vagn Bennike...
...Backroom Advisers. Guatemala's Reds are native products; not one is a Moscow-polished, internationally seasoned operator, and most of them turned Communist only after the 1944 revolution. They got a foothold under professorial Juan José Arevalo, President from 1945 to 1951, who let them organize the country's first trade unions but had enough political sophistication to hold them in rein. Their growth in behind-the-scenes power came under Arbenz, Arevalo's chosen successor, whom they helped elect...
Whistler's Grandmother (by Robert Finch) is almost as bad as its title. A young saloonkeeper, whose singer fiancée craves a wholesome family background, hires a lovable old rip to pretend to be his grandmother. She soon turns the backroom-and the boys in it-into a God-Bless-Our-Home Victorian parlor and makes every one so happy that, when the truth comes out, they all vote to go on living...
...Crammer. The first lesson was rough-and valuable. Student Eisenhower was immediately caught up in the dramatic fight between Taftmen and Ikemen for the nomination, the most intense fight in either party since the Democratic Donnybrook of 1924. The political backroom deals of Brazos County, Texas, became as familiar to Ike as the Battle of the Bulge. He was in the center of the storm when the leadership of the Republican Party was torn down-since then a new leadership has been constructed around...
...glory over the restoration of St. Mary's old frescoes. Last year, on the 700th anniversary of St. Mary's, Fey accepted an award for the excellent restoration. "During the celebration," said Malskat bitterly, "I, the man who had done all the work, was sitting in the backroom, where I had been given a bottle of beer...