Word: goliaths
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...make his first slip. He slipped, and soon. With Flynn, he supported Judge Ferdinand Pecora, an honest man cursed with every outward attribute of the typical Tammany stooge, against a Tammany outcast. Vincent Impellitteri, who looked to the voters like a brave little David slinging stones at a Goliath. "Impy," without machine support, won easily. Never had Tammany Hall suffered a more galling defeat. De Sapio was on the way out; at one point he managed to hold on by only two committee votes...
...David & Goliath. After Cafe Filho got the memorandum from the generals, he showed it to Kubitschek, asked him to bow out in favor of some still-unchosen "national union" candidate. Juscelino said no. Late in January, Cafe Filho went on the air to press the national union idea...
Kubitschek is making shrewd use of this high-level opposition by posing as a courageous David pitted against a political Goliath. "They are not asking me for a political peace," he cried in a recent speech. "They want my capitulation . . . And that I will not give them...
...well as the rest of the auto industry. Harlow Curtice does not plan to help his competitors compete. As he says: "I don't see how we can stop people from buying G.M. cars." But he fervently hopes that they will be able to stand up to his Goliath and fight-and thus keep the long arm of the Government from mixing in the auto industry. Curtice thinks his competitors can do it, and so do they. For automen 1955 may well provide the answer...
...Colossus of the North. Though the Latin statesmen for the most part could see the intellectual force of Dulles' arguments, the fact was that deep in their hearts many of them resented such forceful U.S. leadership. Emotionally, they were prepared to cheer any David brash enough to give Goliath a symbolic kick in the pants...