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...running for the at-large congressional seat (which will stay that way unless and until the deadlocked Michigan legislature gets around to setting up a regular district), Staebler hopes to strengthen the entire Democratic state ticket by wooing independent voters, thereby help Swainson beat Republican Gubernatorial Hopeful George Romney. Staebler's likely opponent will be Republican Alvin Bentley, 43, a conservative multimillionaire (auto bodies), whose chief claim to fame is that he was wounded in the chest when a band of Puerto Ricans shot up the U.S. House of Representatives in 1954. After years of plotting strategy for others...
While the defense body-checked and battered M.I.T. into greater and greater submission, Munro played his third, fourth, and fifth midfields and tried a variety of player combinations to strengthen his team. If there were flashes of sheer genius in yesterday's game, there were also phases of sloppiness. Munro cited "poor passing" as a key varsity problem and prescribed "more practice" to solve the dilemma...
...stature to steer France toward a settlement without civil war. Drawing on his surge of popularity after a settlement, De Gaulle will put the terms of the Evian accord to the nation in a national referendum, probably in the spring, then will call for parliamentary elections to strengthen his hand in the National Assembly so that eventually he can push through constitutional reforms. Members of the Gaullist U.N.R. (Union for the New Republic) have asked that the referendum and the elections be held at the same time so that they can cash in on the electoral profits of the Algerian...
...accommodating Nikita, the argument goes, the West would strengthen Khrushchev's hand against the still powerful Stalinists, who, with the Chinese Communists, still cling to the Marxist dogma that war between the two systems is inevitable. If, on the other hand, the West pushes Khrushchev too hard, he might fall, and a Stalinist or "Chinese" successor might be far tougher to deal with. In effect, this theory is a political version of Hilaire Belloc's cautionary verse...
...spokesmen of the "new nationalism" have many faces. Most, like Adenauer and Strauss, are firm advocates of a strong Atlantic alliance and argue that they are merely trying to strengthen it. Others are more concerned with German unity. They would reject nuclear armament and would make other concessions to Russia for the sake of reunification. Off on another tangent is brash Hans Kroll, West Germany's ambassador in Moscow, whose loud advocacy of rapprochement with Russia last fall earned him a personal dressing down from Adenauer himself. Last week Kroll was again ordered home by the angry Chancellor, following...