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...paid by a third-class postmastership. At the G.O.P. convention in Chicago last year, Warren's California delegates did cast their votes for the Eisenhower side in the battle of the contested delegations, but that was the proper strategy for Candidate Warren, who was then hoping for a deadlock. When the balloting for President came, California voted for Warren and never switched. In the campaign, Warren made only late, routine efforts for Ike, and he conspicuously snubbed his fellow Californian, Richard Nixon. Some Administration bigwigs were disappointed that they had not been able to choose...
...freshman soccer team unleashed a barrage of four goals in an overtime period to defeat Tabor Academy 5 to 1, after high-scorer Ed Burlingame evened the tally one-all near the end of the fourth quarter. Both teams repeatedly missed goals until Tabor broke the scoreless deadlock in the third period with a short boot into the corner of the Crimson...
...contract broke a long deadlock between the U.S. and Bolivia's revolutionary government. Ever since the RFC stopped buying tin in quantity in 1951 because it thought the price (up from around 80? to $2 a Ib.) was exorbitant, Bolivia has suffered severe economic cramps (TIME, May 5, 1952 et seq.). Negotiations with the U.S. for a new, long-term contract were not helped when Bolivia nationalized its tin mines and offered to pay off investors, many of them in the U.S., at only one-third of the value of the tin companies...
...charter and economics expert at Brookings Institution; after a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. A late '30s protege of Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Economist Pasvolsky served as Hull's principal behind-the-scenes strategist at the Dumbarton Oaks and San Francisco conferences, broke a Big Five deadlock at San Francisco by "reinterpreting" the veto question and rewriting the U.N. charter...
...long delay in picking a president has led to speculation that a deadlock may exist among the Corporation. But nothing has leaked from the six-man group thus far, and there is no indication that any positive information will come until the Corporation makes its choice and issues a release...