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Before another humiliating roll-call defeat could be inflicted on them, Taftmen threw in the towel, proposed that the convention unanimously seat the Eisenhower Texas delegation. With that vote, all hope of regaining the offensive went out of the Taft forces, although they still held together with a tenacity and defensive loyalty almost unparalleled in beaten groups at U.S. national conventions...
...competition gets keener, the only apparent effect is to key his reactions a bit tighter and sharpen his sense of timing. "When the pressure's on," he says, "I like it best." Between events, while other athletes trot nervously back & forth, talking and worrying, he tosses a towel over his head and lies down in the shelter of the stands until he is called for the next round. Sometimes he falls asleep...
After three frustrated years under the Communists, British businesses in Red China last week decided to throw in the towel. In London the powerful China Association announced that its members would sever trade ties and abandon all their assets in Red China-holdings worth more than $840 million. Most of the 700 British nationals in China-all that is left of a British trade colony that numbered 10,000-will probably ask the Communist government for exit visas. The firms will try to sell their assets to Chinese Communist agencies, but the Foreign Office fears that it will prove...
...Hollywood, Cinemactor Tyrone Power learned that he was about to receive a distinctly personal 3Qth-birthday gift: a life-size bronze nude (except for towel-draped hips) of his wife Linda Christian, who had posed for the statue last year in London while Power was busy making a picture...
...accused the Pennsylvania Railroad of violating price ceilings and sued for $384,245 triple damages. The charge: the Pennsy, without raising its hand and asking teacher for permission, had doubled the price of admission to most of its station toilets from 5? to 10? and increased the charges for towel, soap and comb from...