Word: feuds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...costs, on grounds that to pay would constitute admission of error, the case is still rumbling on. Augstein-an influential member of the Free Democratic Party, which is more extreme than any other non-Communist party in urging unification with East Germany-admits that he may have carried the feud with Adenauer too far. Though he now agrees with some Adenauer policies, Augstein grumped last week that the rift "may not be possible to undo...
...Family Feud. Seeing these figures, Penn-Texas stockholders at last week's annual meeting slapped down the dissidents, gave Silberstein more ammunition for future swaps by voting to double the company's stock to 10 million shares (of which Silberstein now owns but 20,000). In the flush of victory, Silberstein charged that the revolt in his ranks was a Fairbanks, Morse device to frustrate his designs on their company...
After a year's heavy buying, Silberstein interests now own more than 385,000 shares' of Fairbanks, Morse's 1,372,125 outstanding, slightly more than the company's founding family, which still runs the company. The Morses are further weakened by a bitter family feud. Former President Charles H. Morse Sr. sold 15,000 shares to Silberstein, has given him an option to buy 27,220 more shares at the market price. Last week Morse's son, Charles Jr., resigned as the company's chief salesman to rail companies from Chicago...
...Recognizing that the ancient feud between Italy and Yugoslavia over Trieste was a potential source of war and was distracting Italy from other serious problems, she 'helped get U.S. backing for a brass-tacks London negotiating conference, meanwhile worked hard in Rome to help iron out details of a Trieste settlement that still works ("No one will ever know," wrote Milan's major daily Corriere della Sera, at the time of the Trieste settlement, "how much Italy owes to this fragile blonde...
...their talks emerged the possibility that the moribund Baghdad Pact might be transmuted into something else -a purely Moslem pact against Soviet penetration. For some time Saudi Arabia's King Saud, despite his feud with the ruling Hashemite family in Iraq, has been moving gradually toward a rapprochement with Iraq, based on the common interest of the two largest oil-producing lands of the Arab world. (Saud fears that Syrians may blow up the U.S.-owned Tapline from his oil fields as they blew up the Iraqi pipeline.) From their new awareness could emerge an inner order...