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...hard-core Senate followers, whose latest gambit had been to promote talk that McCarthy, if censured, might bolt the G.O.P. to head a third party in 1956. Joe's scramble for martyrdom and his appeal over the Senate to the people were cited as evidence of the walkout possibility. It was fairly obvious that Wallace Bennett was one Re publican who held scant fear about Joe's defection...
...percent of the electorate voted, and 60% have voted for me," he told his followers. To no one's surprise, the final returns reported a 70% vote and a 6-1 margin for Batista. The opposition votes went to Grau, whose name remained on the ballots despite his walkout. Batista's four-party coalition bagged its constitutional limit of Senate seats (36 out of 54), all nine provincial governorships, and most other offices. Said Grau: "The future of Cuba is dark...
...hours before the polls were to open, his only opponent, ex-President Ramón Grau San Martin, withdrew from the race. Batista smilingly announced that the elections (for Congress, governorships and local offices as well as for the presidency) would go off as scheduled. But Grau's walkout had spoiled the strongman's plan. Batista's main purpose in scheduling elections in the first place was to win the badge of legitimacy, and to do that properly, he needed something that at least looked like opposition...
...back with a $1,250,000 damage suit against the Air Line Pilots Association, A.F.L. Strike may spread to United, but Trans World Airlines sidestepped the battle. It ordered its nonstop transcontinental flights to put down in Chicago to refuel and change pilots, thus avoid the cause of the walkout: exceeding an eight-hour limit on flying time for flight crews...
...pioneer days, Spokane, to entice new settlers, sent around handbills bragging about its development and proclaiming, "The End Is Not Yet!" That's the way Spokane feels still, come H-bomb or high water. This week the city went ahead with Operation Walkout-the nation's first test evacuation...