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Great Names. Much backbiting, infighting, frontal assault and crossfire occur in the vast middle ground occupied by the Semipures, the Adapters, the Interpreters. Joan Baez, being...
Back in Philadelphia, he used his frontal approach on representatives of four banks: "All right, fellows, I'm going out there with the troops. What are you going to do to make me feel secure?" The banks made available $22 million to help Curtis rebuild...
...Petty Putsch." At that, the Communists almost missed the boat with Fidel. When Castro led a gang of young rebels in a foolhardy frontal assault on Batista's Moncada barracks in 1953, the old party-liners called it a "petty-bourgeois putsch." In 1957. when Castro went into the Sierra Maestra hills to start his guerrilla war, they again dismissed him as an ineffectual "adventurer"-a Communist phrase for amateurs. But Castro survived and grew stronger, and the possibility of an alliance began to dawn on both sides. Though Castro was a hero in the hills with great popularity...
Even in the face of the rebuff, Reuther held his tongue. But that only left the convention's 900 delegates wondering how long it would be before Reuther would launch a frontal assault on Meany that might well end up by ending the whole A.F.L.-C.I.O. merger. This possibility was plainly in the mind of Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg when he addressed the convention. Assuring the convention that there were really no insoluble conflicts within the A.F.L.-C.I.O., Goldberg declared: "Our national policies at home, to cope with the problems we face abroad, demand unity-unity on the part...
...September Captain Kieu violated that last principle by dying in a reckless frontal assault on the government-held village of Dakakoi...