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...Bloodiest victim of the purge was Baltimore's Mayor Tommy D'Alesandro, who as national committeeman wielded the most power in a power-weak, faction-racked state organization. As the kingmaker who nudged Tydings into the race with Mahoney, D'Alesandro was booted out as committeeman, spanked again by being ignored when Baltimore delegates to the national convention were selected...
...best and bloodiest middleweight fist fights in years, Utah's Gene Fullmer and France's Charles Humez cut each other up like feuding samurai for ten rounds at Madison Square Garden before Fullmer won the decision and, perhaps, a chance to send Champion Sugar Ray Robinson back to the nightclubs...
...Algeria 300 were killed in one of the bloodiest weeks in the 16 months of crisis. In theory, if it comes to war in Algeria, the odds should favor the government, which has 200,000 French soldiers pitted against perhaps 15,000 armed rebels. But as in Indo-China, the rebels can count on the encouragement, tacit support or at least the silence of 8,000,000 Algerians...
...sound of clash and the rumor of war rumbled through the Middle East. Would the Israelis-1,500,000 people ringed around by 40 million Arab enemies -attack before the Egyptians could use the shiploads of arms the Communists had sold them? Last week the Israelis struck the bloodiest blow since the 1949 armistice. But what at first looked like the beginning of the worst turned out at week's end to be not a preventive war but one quick, calculated ounce of prevention...
Around Gaza, where Samson lost his eyes, transgressions multiplied past Biblical number last week. The blazing religious nationalisms of Egypt and Israel burst out in the bloodiest border fighting since the 1949 armistice...