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Then the war began-and for the first three quarters it looked as if the oddsmakers were right again. Army scored the first time it had the ball, Quarterback Stichweh slicing over from the ten after driving his team 65 yds. in eleven plays. But then Navy's Staubach went to work-on the ground, not in the air. Sending Fullback Pat Donnelly ripping through the line, throwing just enough to keep the defense honest, Staubach put together three drives of 47, 80, and 91 yds., capping each with a touchdown by Donnelly. With ten minutes left to play...
Remarkably, in his attempt to dictate the senatorial nomination, Harriman was licked before he began-and almost everybody knew it but Ave. His inability to grasp the political facts of life kept the convention fight raging for days in hotel corridors, suites and lobbies. The log of one of the wildest of all New York political conventions...
...shreds in months of contradic tory testimony. On the eve of his summing up, the prosecuting attorney was struck with laryngitis and had to rush off to the hospital. The presiding judge himself threw up his hands. "I've seen a lot of trials in my day," he began-and could say no more...
...Communist strategists ordered the North Korean attack, never dreaming that the U.S. or the U.N. would fight them. The U.S. had plainly said it would not defend South Korea, and it was in no military position to do so. Total defeat in Korea was narrowly averted. Victory began-and with it arose a confusion about the U.N. goals. The U.S. was running the war, supplying the bulk of the troops, and to it belonged the main responsibility for defining the objectives of the war. When its policymakers failed, the voices of the . U.S. allies began to make themselves felt...
...steel mills had raised the issue. A forthright judgment by Federal District Judge David A. Pine had brought the issue to a head. Whatever the Supreme Court's ruling, Judge Pine's decision came as a sharp check to the persistent expansion of presidential powers which began-and was warmly welcomed by most of the U.S.-in the early days of the New Deal...