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Double Winner. The outcome of the Maple Leafs-Red Wings fracas turned on a combination of three factors. Toronto was hamstrung by injuries to key men. And the Leafs let down, sure they were a shoo-in after losing only twice to the Wings in 14 previous games. The Wings, on the other hand, particularly slopeshouldered Veteran Gordie Howe and Goalie Terry Sawchuk, played far above their mid-season form...
Like a specialist called in to diagnose a serious infection but not permitted to bring all his instruments along, the U.N. observer team sent in September to Laos to investigate charges of Communist Viet Nam aggression was hamstrung by explicit instructions to simply look and listen. Otherwise, U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge might never have succeeded in his adroit procedural move to create the Laos subcommittee over Russia's negative vote. An investigation would have been subject to Soviet veto, but Lodge's lawyers had found a veto-proof 1946 precedent for "a subcommittee of inquiry" that could...
...Hamstrung by the arrest of their chiefs and also by the defection of the Praja-Socialists, who used to join them but have been wary since Tibet, the Reds were unable to fill the streets with raging thousands, could muster on successive days only a few hundred, who were carted off to jail still waving red flags and shouting slogans. Communist agitators pleaded with the onlooking crowds to lie in the streets in passive resistance, but won no volunteers...
...Philippines' economic woes have grown, Macapagal has become more and more outspoken in denouncing corruption in the Garcia regime. But effective opposition to Garcia's Nacionalistas is hamstrung by the existence of several major parties in Philippine politics. Besides Macapagal's Liberal Party, there is the Progressive Party, headed by Manny Manahan, another of the bright young men of the Magsaysay era. Somehow, Manahan and Macapagal could never agree to combine forces, and Old Pol Garcia maneuvered to keep them apart...
Added to these personal vendettas was the distaste of right-wing Christian Democrats for Fanfani's "opening to the left" solution to Italy's economic problems. On open votes of confidence, Fanfani won dutiful majorities. But on secret ballots, the right-wingers harassed, hamstrung and even outvoted Fanfani so that he never really got a chance to function as Premier. They did so without regret. "Talk about sniping," said one Roman pundit. "Fanfani practically invented...