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Snubnosed, 31-year-old Barsov proved equally obdurate. For hours the major employed every psychological trick in the book to wear him down. Over & over again he made Barsov write his name, insisting that it was not really the way he normally wrote his signature. Then, playing his trump card, the major pulled out a letter...
...violence continued, Ohio's Governor Thomas Herbert rushed to Dayton and persuaded union officials to throw in the towel. But the rank & file electrical workers defied their leaders, voted to remain on strike. Herbert then played his trump: he called out the National Guard to maintain order at the plant. This week, pickets still marched, but Univis apparently would stay open for business...
...Pieria was neither great nor glorious. It was, however, important: for the first time in a year the Greek government forces, instead of trying to "contain" the guerrillas, had taken the offensive. Just as the U.S. had finally begun to crowd the Communists with political moves like the Trieste trump in Italy and General Lucius Clay's tough stand in Germany, so the Greek army was no longer Content to sit back and wait for the next Communist threat...
...self-confessed groundling, Managing Editor Matthews hopefully took along a brief case full of work and brought it back in exactly the same condition. His excuse: "On the occasions when I didn't think I was facing the last trump or a dress rehearsal for it, or a sudden reversal of peristaltic action; I was riveted to the window, trying to read the picture book surface...
...their struggle with General Motors, first target among the auto industry's Big Three, the United Automobile Workers played a last diplomatic trump card- an offer to arbitrate. But the union demanded that the arbiters have access to General Motors' books-a provision that was anathema to the company...