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...Communists' support for Gizenga. (With extraordinarily bad timing, a chartered Stratocruiser arrived in Katanga last week carrying three crated jet fighters, doubtless procured with Belgian assistance.) At one point, there was broad agreement among the Afro-Asians on a plan that would neutralize the competing Congolese army forces, oust all foreign military or paramilitary "advisers" and soldiers of fortune, bring back Parliament and a broadened central government...
CHRYSLER PROBLEMS increase. Dissident Stockholder Sol A. Dann vowed to start a proxy fight to oust management. Deposed President William C. Newberg sued Chairman and President L. L. Colbert for $5,250,000, charging that Colbert conspired to make Newberg look dishonest to give himself "an aura of righteousness." Only cheery note: Chrysler 1960 earnings were $3.61 per share, first yearly profit since...
...Sapio, sore beset by the so-called reform insurgents, who seek to unseat him as New York Democratic national committeeman and leader of Tammany Hall, struck out at his tormentors. In this year's New York City mayoralty campaign, De Sapio promised, his regular Democrats will "oppose and oust these self-styled leaders who seek to rule or ruin the party . . . It is time that we strip these masqueraders of the uniform of the Democratic Party under which they parade, and expose them for what they are-self-seeking and deluded demagogues...
...Rules Committee (two Democrats, including one Southerner, and one Republican). Smith flatly rejected the offer, and Mister Sam thereupon decided to join the rebels. The next morning he summoned a group of top Democrats to his private office and broke the news: he would lead the fight to oust Colmer, whom he is said to regard as "an inferior...
...needed nearly twice that number to control the 260-member Democratic caucus. The liberals, smelling blood, were faced with the necessity of winning three big votes-in the Democratic Committee on Committees, in the full party caucus, and on the floor of the House-before they could oust Colmer. (One big question: If Colmer was to be purged, what should the House do about the other three senior Mississippians who supported the maverick electors?) In all three arenas, they seemed certain of victory-especially with Sam Rayburn applying his whiplash...