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Fighting back, Diefenbaker and his forces decided to quash the rebellion by voting Camp out of office at this year's party conference. The Diefenbaker candidate for Camp's job was Toronto Lawyer Arthur Maloney, 46. But Diefenbaker's fiery oratory, which once had propelled the party to the greatest election margin in Canadian history, this time failed to rally the delegates to his cause. As the Toronto Globe and Mail put it, "The audience didn't just sit on their hands; they checked them at the door...
...tutors' rebellion that has been simmering in the History Department since last spring has brought changes in Harvard's largest field of study. Out of the set of sweeping reforms proposed by a group of tutors, the Department had judiciously accepted only one revision and added another...
...Choice." Martin concludes: "I have no doubt whatsoever that there was a real danger of a Communist takeover. Given the circumstances that existed at the time, President Johnson had no choice but to send the troops." If he had not, the Castroites, in all probability, "would have spread the rebellion throughout the republic and in the end established a Communist-dominated government." If only in the context of domestic American politics, no Administration could have risked the establishment of yet another Cuba-style regime in the Caribbean...
...because of three "dragon's eggs" given him by a superstitious peasant. Draconic rage at their theft supposedly brought floods down upon the land (TIME, Oct. 21), so his rest cure in Bangkok for what he called a "sprained arm" was likely to be lengthy. Then came a rebellion of royalist air force officers under General Thao Ma; they bombed Vientiane and then fled with half the nation's air force-eleven American-built T-28 fighter-bombers-to Thailand...
...part of its successful battle for a larger share of the U.S. auto market, Chrysler Corp.'s Dodge Division lately has been wooing buyers with ads in which an eye-catching blonde model suggests: "Join the Dodge Rebellion." Last week the rebellion spread to an unexpected quarter. In the New York City area, 58 of Dodge's 98 dealers publicly attacked the way the company treats them...