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...sided a vote on so hard-fought an issue showed how far Congress is willing to go with Dwight Eisenhower once he clearly and firmly leads...
Borodino is a name often heard in Moscow. It is a village about 70 miles westward, where Marshal Kutusov's Russian army made a last-ditch stand against Napoleon in 1812, and where in World War II a hard-fought battle stopped the Germans. Red propagandists made a Soviet symbol of Borodino. When the Foreign Ministry planned its new skyscraper after the war, it chose a site overlooking the Borodino bridge by which the historic highway from the west enters Moscow. There last week top Soviet policymakers met to plot the strategy of a diplomatic Borodino...
...majority in the Chamber of Deputies. This time they won a narrow edge in the Senate, but, though the leading party, failed by 57,000 votes to get a clear popular majority in the Chamber of Deputies. Had those comparatively few votes swung his way, De Gasperi's hard-fought electoral-reform law would have given him a bonus of about 80 seats. As it was proportional representation gave him a 16-seat Chamber majority-enough to govern warily but not boldly...
Sound & Fury. In Hughesville, Pa., the citizens voted to legalize local drinking after a hard-fought campaign during which the drys rang the town's church bells every hour and Anti-Prohibitionist Richard Schaeffer tooted his sawmill whistle every half hour...
Yesterday's close win came right on the heels of a hard-fought 8 to 5 loss to Dartmouth Saturday...