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...threw their one fierce punch. Israeli Shermans and AMXs ran into a strong battalion of Egyptian armor, veered away from it while Israeli infantry moved to the attack. Overhead, Israeli Mysteres spotted a major reinforcing column (it apparently was a full corps of up to 50,000 men) lumbering eastward along the macadam road from Ismailia. Egyptian Vampires and MIGs came in to cover the reinforcements, fell into battle with Israeli fighters. By late in the day, it was still a battle. The Egyptians were fighting with more skill and courage than in the 1948 fiasco. Then came the ultimatum...
...border into eastern Jordan, and Baghdad announced that Iraqi armored elements were also on their way into Jordan. The presumption was that they were there to help Jordan defend itself against an Israeli invasion, although their presence might also give Israel the pretext for invading Jordan. By expanding eastward to the Jordan River, Israel could, at Jordan's expense, straighten out its borders (at one point only seven miles wide). That would leave Jordan with a wide stretch of desert, and not much to live on. One of the fears agitating Jordan was that the friends who came...
Final Swing. From Arizona Adlai headed eastward for one more look at the heavily unionized population centers of the East and Midwest: Baltimore, Camden, Philadelphia, New York, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, Cleveland and Detroit. Then comes the grand climax of the whole tour: this Saturday the Chicago Democratic organization hopes to turn out half a million of the faithful for a homecoming parade, hopes to jam Chicago Stadium for a nationally televised rally and speech...
...week's end Stevenson flew eastward to his Libertyville farm, radiant with satisfaction over the way things are going for the Democrats in the West. His estimate of his week's pulse-taking: Montana, "very, very optimistic"; Idaho, "reassuring"; Washington, good prospects for the ticket "and especially for Senator Magnuson"; Oregon, desperate Republicans are sending for Ike; California, "always hard to predict, but I am much encouraged...
...last decade of the nineteenth century, Southerners in significant numbers were again cautiously proceeding eastward, particularly to Princeton. Harvard was definitely in the hinterlands, and as late as 1929 only 24 students entered the college from the thirteen Southern states...