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...really began minutes before, when Hungarian Captain Ferenc Puskas hit Brazil's Joao Pinheiro in the face with a pop bottle. However it started, the fight swirled through the locker rooms, and players, spectators and officials got in licks with bottles, furniture, glass from shattered partitions and the toe-ends of good solid soccer boots. Swiss gendarmes surrounded the locker room, but for a while all they could do was keep out reinforcements. If it was any consolation, Brazil won the brawl, two casualties...
Where previous Congresses for 40 years have merely wetted a toe and walked away, the House of Representatives last week took a momentous plunge: it approved the St. Lawrence Seaway project...
...tenth, flailing away with four of the fastest fists in the business, the two fighters stood toe-to-toe and slugged it out while the crowd howled. Gavilan unleashed one of his famed bolo punches, a freewheeling uppercut that starts with a backswing. Olson shrugged it off, kept right on boring...
Railroad Tycoon Robert R. Young, in the midst of a fight for control of the New York Central, last week got something close to a toe hold on control of another road, the $797 million Missouri Pacific Railroad. The Mopac went bankrupt in 1933, and four times the Interstate Commerce Commission has drawn up reorganization plans for it. Young, whose Alleghany Corp. owns 49% (396,000 shares) of Mopac's common stock, has helped to have the plans overturned every time, either before the ICC or in court. The reason: while the plans called for bailing out the system...
Young, who has long argued that the road's earnings are large enough to give the common stockholders a share in the road, was mum last week on the new plan. But it was safe to bet that his Alleghany Corp. would oppose it. "Less than a toe hold" is hardly enough for the man who wants to sit at the throttle of Mopac...