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STEEL UNION REBELS rolled up surprisingly high vote in move to unseat President Dave McDonald. Preliminary count gave Insurgent Leader Don Rarick (TIME, Dec. 10) more than one-third of the ballots, which he interprets as a mandate to keep the anti-McDonald bloc intact and try again for election in 1961. Steelmakers fear Rarick group may try to outdo McDonald in contract demands, thus put squeeze on industry...
...Financier Leopold Silberstein is being pressed by Robert H. Morse Jr., whose control of Fairbanks, Morse & Co. is challenged by Silberstein's Penn-Texas Corp. in proxy war (TIME, Dec. 17). Morse has bought 1,100 shares of Penn-Texas stock, is helping finance dissident stockholders trying to unseat Leopold Silberstein from Penn-Texas presidency...
Heptagonal championship notwithstanding, the varsity track team faces a tough meet in its opener against Dartmouth tomorrow afternoon at Hanover. The revenge-minded Indians, still smarting from their 1/3 of a point loss last season, would like nothing more than to unseat the Eastern king. Meet time...
...most Arab lands of the Middle East, young army officers with revolutionary social ideas and anti-Western feelings may be riding high. But they have yet to unseat Iraq's tough Strongman Nuri es-Said, 68, the coolheaded camelback raider of Lawrence of Arabia's World War I anti-Turk desert revolt, who boasts: "I was risking my life for the Cause of Arab independence before Nasser was out of his swaddling clothes...
...were franker than the Brit ish about Suez. Said Socialist Premier Guy Mollet last week: "We did not tell President Eisenhower about the Franco-British invasion, because if we had, the U.S. would have insisted on our stopping." Mollet did not acknowledge that the main French objective was to unseat Nasser, but the failure to achieve this aim was threatening the life of his government last week...