Word: counterattack
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...COUNTERATTACK against Financier Leopold Silberstein is being pressed by Robert H. Morse Jr., whose control of Fairbanks, Morse & Co. is challenged by Silberstein's Penn-Texas Corp. in proxy war (TIME, Dec. 17). Morse has bought 1,100 shares of Penn-Texas stock, is helping finance dissident stockholders trying to unseat Leopold Silberstein from Penn-Texas presidency...
...Without Success." Until then, Nasser says, operations were not going badly in Sinai: "All our operations had been defensive. For us, war had not begun." His main forces, not yet engaged, planned to mount a counterattack on the seventh or eighth day. The decision to withdraw from Sinai was easier made than carried out. With Egypt's airfields under Anglo-French attack, Nasser could not give his retreating forces air cover. By the time it got back across the Suez Canal, he admitted, the main body of his armored forces had lost 30 out of about 200 Russian...
...narrative of Hungary's deathwatch, Jones ran off five carbon copies of his stories, sent them out with acquaintances, passers-by and an Austrian black-marketeer. So effective was their improvisation that the first big convoy of correspondents who arrived in Austria with eyewitness accounts of the Soviet counterattack in Budapest found that Jones, Marton and Reuters' Farquhar had scooped them. Since telephone service was restored, Jones has managed to phone out at least two stories a day in calls to Stockholm, Frankfurt or Vienna...
...platoon as a "prize eight ball," Machine Gunner John Wol-zeak spotted a Chinese sneak attack, made "the astonishing discovery that he was a born infantry fighter," and, together with a buddy, exultantly checked the enemy. t| On Dale outpost, a badly wounded lieutenant led an uphill counterattack and nightlong defense, next morning could still jolly his men with a grin and a quip: "I already have one Purple Heart. Now they'll have to give me a dozen." t| Two infantrymen, both named Smith, were cut off from their outfit, spent the night with a wounded comrade playing...
Nixon promptly threw away his prepared speech notes and set to work anew, aware that the telephone call had signaled a turning point in the campaign: Ike is through turning the Republican other cheek to Democratic attacks. As Nixon knew, the brunt of carrying the counterattack would fall upon him and G.O.P. National Chairman Leonard Hall, for Ike had no intention of lending the presidency to campaign potshotting...