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Winnie & Greatness. The Conservatives' biggest campaign gun went off in workaday Liverpool, a Labor stronghold. In the city's sooty stadium, home of champion boxers and second-rate wrestlers, 76-year-old Battler Winston Churchill, looking like a grey kewpie, swung some grandiloquent haymakers at Labor's bungling of the Iranian oil dispute, which the London Observer called a diplomatic defeat in some ways worse than Munich. "It will be my duty," said Winnie, "to expose the melancholy story of inadvertence, incompetence, indecision and final collapse which has marked the policy of our Socialist rulers...
...trip from the supply base to the Huk stronghold on Mt. Dortz-a 500-acre plateau, 4,000 feet high and only 15 miles from the U.S.'s Clark Field-usually takes the tough, nimble Huks eight to ten hours. With David Jones, who was constantly stumbling and slipping, it took 17 hours. "We never hit a public road, just trails, and there was no stopping except when it was time...
...more than too, including Peregrino and Rebecca Taruc, cousin and sister of Huk Army Commander Luis Taruc. Exulted Magsaysay last week: "We have just disrupted the biggest and most active Huk regional command in central Luzon and seized what was probably the Huk army's most strategically located stronghold...
...patrols moved in on Kosong (reportedly the eastern anchor of the U.N.'s proposed cease-fire buffer zone), while a destroyer-escort pounded the town from offshore. Further south and west, near Yanggu, U.N. infantrymen rested briefly after a savage, five-day fight for a 1.500-foot Red stronghold which Americans nicknamed "Fool Mountain...
Democrats, who first cracked the Republican stronghold by winning four important City Hall jobs in 1949, nominated City Controller Joseph S. Clark Jr. for mayor, and City Treasurer Richardson Dilworth, a socialite turned Fair Deal street orator, for district attorney. Despite Dan Poling's respected name, there is still a chance that in November Philadelphia will elect its first Democratic mayor in 67 years...