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...accordance with existing treaties." Guatemala, where Reds already run such governmental institutions as social security and the land-reform program, took to itself the role of martyr and chief opposer of the measure. Fewer than 15 favorable votes, delegates agreed, would mean psychological defeat for the U.S.; at midweek, only ten were on record favoring the measure...
...night, after 11,000 were seated and another 1,000 allowed to stand, thousands more were turned away. So many people came on the first Saturday that Graham decided to make three-meeting Saturdays a permanent feature of his three-month crusade. Other plans to deal with the overflow: midweek matinee meetings, subsidiary meetings in movie houses to be toured by Graham, loudspeakers in nearby Harringay Stadium on the five nights a week when there are no dog races...
...tide had set in and John Bricker could not stop it. In midweek, Connecticut's Republican Prescott Bush, one of the amendment's 64 original sponsors, publicly announced a change of mind, indicated he would vote against it. Five others admitted privately to the same change of position. Bricker could no longer count on the necessary two-thirds majority...
...dashed forward to face the "Hamburger Squad," the Notre Dame freshmen. At Notre Dame, the freshmen never play an outside game. Their sole function is to serve as "ground meat for the varsity," a ferociously hungry group which believes in eating''up just as much yardage in midweek scrimmages as in Saturday's big game. The seven linemen-roaring another guttural "Y-A-A-A-A-H-H-R-R-R"*-charged like bulls into a row of freshman defenders, who were specially padded, rather like picadors' horses, to withstand the shock. In the same split...
...afraid he had not cut far enough, and defense-minded critics feared that the results of his cuts might impair U.S. security. But any who thought Dwight Eisenhower had lost his sense of balance between the two logics had not listened to his short, off-the-cuff speech at midweek to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Said he: "These [defense-security] costs are going to be lowered at the earliest possible moment. But they are never going to be lowered beyond that point that you can, with justification, say: 'I shall sleep well tonight because my country, its system...