Word: duels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eyeful. Army Secretary Stevens looked "about as dangerous as an eagle scout leading his first patrol." Roy Cohn "looks like a boy who has had a letter sent home from school about him, and has come back with his elders to get the thing straightened out." As for the duel between McCarthy and Army Counsel Joseph Welch, "Mr. Welch proceeds at the measured pace of the minuet, with frequent, courtly bows. Senator McCarthy favors the tarantella, moving almost faster than the human eye can follow...
With ruthless efficiency, Shields and Columbia beat Weatherly twice and Easterner once, and Mosbacher and Vim beat Easterner once and Weatherly twice. The selection committee eliminated both Weatherly (seven wins, seven losses) and Easterner (no wins, 14 losses), thereby cleared the decks for the final duel between Columbia (eleven wins, four defeats), owned by a New York Yacht Club syndicate, and Vim (ten wins, five defeats), owned by Business Executive John N. Matthews...
...Writer Walt Kempley comes into the dressing room with the news that he has found a gun that shoots soft bullets. How about a duel with Genevieve to see who can draw the fastest? Often such gimmicks are the bright spots of a show (a mechanical fish-eating fish was brought back for numerous encores, as was a pair of "binoculars" that were actually half liquor flask). But tonight Paar is not in the mood. "I need a show," he snaps...
...Great Silence. The delicate-and for the first two weeks, bloodless-state of balance could not last indefinitely, for two great forces were in a deadly duel to determine the fate of France. Defending the Fourth Republic was testy Premier Pierre Pflimlin, armed with constitutionality and the tough internal security forces commanded by stooped, whitehaired Interior Minister Jules Moch.* On the attack were the insurgents of Algeria, armed with the bulk of France's effective military strength and the full-throated approval of the Algiers mob. Off to one side, waiting for a summons to take over, stood towering...
...duel went on in a strange silence -a silence imposed on the mass of the French people not by Jules Moch's troopers but by a fundamental indecision. Economically prosperous, politically cynical and weary, Frenchmen could not summon up enough enthusiasm for De Gaulle to rush to the barricades on his behalf. But for the most part they seemed not to feel enough hostility to offer him active opposition, were apparently prepared to accept him as ruler of France, if it came to that. When, early last week, France's two biggest unions called for a general work...