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...security problem was far from over. Senator Joe McCarthy was monopolizing the headlines, making it appear that he was the only person who cared about ridding the Government of Communists. Other Cabinet members urged President Eisenhower to meet McCarthy headon, but Brownell thought otherwise. "Let time elapse," said he. Apply the law, Brownell counseled, by refusing to let McCarthy take over the files of the executive branch, but stay out of emotional brawls. First and last, Brownell thought that McCarthy by his excesses would bring about his own ruin...
...first man hits Matsko headon, driving his helmet for the captain's belly. Matsko braces for the shock, comes up and under and tosses his attacker aside. Agase gives him no rest. "Get him out of there. Get him out of there," shouts The Animal. As soon as one man hits, another starts his charge. Matsko holds his ground. Again a helmet shoots for his belly; Matsko catches the thrust with his shoulder, brings up his forearm in a vicious swipe to bounce his tormentor clear. After six attacks he is still there. His face stretches into weird contortions...
...theme-the disruptive impact of Western manners, morals and ideas on the semifeudal, arch-familistic patterns of Eastern life. Kipling said "never the twain shall meet"; the novelists of the East seem to be ruefully saying "never the twain shall part," and rather regretting that East and West met headon...
...Lafayette, Ind. wallpaper manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers and members of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators & Paperhangers of America (A.F.L.) met the do-it-yourself threat headon. They organized a National Joint Paperhanging Training Committee to teach more apprentices the trade, hope they can persuade more householders to hire more paperhangers and buy more paper...
Gavilan set out to give a boxing lesson, stabbing sharp lefts, waltzing away, rushing in for a ferocious flurry of punches. He got his comeuppance in the second round. Instead of backing away in confusion, Basilio met the champion headon. He shook Gavilan with a right, landed a crushing left hook flush on his jaw. The crowd went wild; for the second time in 112 fights, the great Kid Gavilan was down, flat on his back, eyes glazed, pomaded hair askew. The referee counted to eight before the champion got to his feet and groggily hung on until the bell...