Word: defeated
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...play cards, shoot pool, follow the horses or bestow nylons indiscreetly. Beck and his Teamsters spend lavishly for civic and political purposes, e.g., a cool $1,000,000 pledged to the City of Hope Medical Center near Los Angeles, and (according to McClellan committee testimony) about $500,000 to defeat a right-to-work referendum in Washington State last year. With the notable exception of Washington's ex-Republican Governor Arthur Langlie (who began ringing alarms on Beck 20 years ago), most successful Northwestern politicians are beholden to Dave Beck. In 1946 Washington's Democratic Governor Mon Wallgren...
...rhymes with fever) has the awesome job of developing an ICBM as a practical weapon of war before the Communists do. He lives with the gnawing awareness of what losing the ICBM race might mean. But General Schriever is a man who has always lived for victory rather than defeat. ("I hate to admit defeat in anything," he once remarked, without flamboyance.) Should he win his destiny-sized race for an operational ICBM, he believes, the U.S. will hold in its hands a vital deterrent to attack-a new peacekeeper of unparalleled power and potential...
Just four months after Nasser had been saved (by the U.S. and U.N.) from military defeat, and had restored to him what his armies could not hold, Nasser announced last week that as soon as the U.N. clears the Suez Canal for him, he will insist on holding control over the transport systems, the factory-output levels and the room temperatures of Western Europe...
...Power (Sun. 6:30 p.m., CBS). The Defeat of Japan...
...wrestling, Lionel copped its lone league championship, amassing 40 points to defeat Mower, which collected 33. Straus South, one of the major powers of the American League in all sports, took third with 29 points...