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...Taft appeared seriously worried by the effect on delegates of the argument that he cannot win in November. Characteristically, instead of soft-pedaling the issue, Taft met it headon. If nominated, he cried, he will carry 30 states and win by a 5,000,000-vote majority...
...engines began to roll slowly toward each other on the same narrow-gauge track. The engineers in the cabs pushed the throttles open, then jumped clear as the trains picked up speed. A few seconds later the canyon rocks reverberated with a thunderous blast as the iron horses collided headon. Scrap iron hurtled against the wooden barricades which protected the five cameras grinding away from different angles. Farther off, 300 railroad and film people cheered. As any small boy could understand, there may be something richly satisfying in the spectacle of two monsters bashing hell out of each other...
...conventional pictures, showed them for ten years running at Pittsburgh's Carnegie International exhibitions. After Franco took over Spain, Junyer came to the U.S. and earned a new reputation as an innovator. Pictures, he decided, are too limited-because they have to be evenly lighted and looked at headon. So he turned to sculpture-paintings, which are made to fit odd corners as well as flat walls, can be seen from different angles, in changing lights, with an almost unlimited variety of effects. Each angle and light shows a different facet of Junyer's work...
...Tories themselves did not meet the issue headon. They avoided any call for conscription, the only real way to boost the Canadian forces much higher than 69,000. Though Canada is the only major power of the North Atlantic alliance without a draft law, the Tories recognized that there is little active sentiment for conscription (chief support has come from the Canadian Legion and some newspapers). They also made their timid obeisance to the traditional isolationism of French Catholic Quebec, which bitterly opposes the draft even when the enemy in sight is the enemy of its faith...
Finally, General Kim stopped bowling. Instead of trying to take the road headon, he tried to cut it off by an enveloping thrust. Kim sent his 8th Regiment through a hole in the South Korean line on Michaelis' right flank...