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Joining the chorus of indignation, Kennedy huddled with Liberal Party leaders and reform Democrats, who proceeded to make their own deal to wrest the Democratic nomination from Klein in the primary and put up a Democratic-Liberal candidate in the general election. The Liberals dumped their earlier nominee, the reformers deserted Klein, and the new coalition plumped for Justice Samuel Silverman, 58, a Klein colleague on the Supreme Court. Kennedy personally talked him into running...
...decision to act against Egypt came from Ben-Gurion, who had been informed of the Anglo-French plans to wrest the Suez Canal from Nasser. Responsibility for plans and operations was handed to Major General Dayan, who at 38 had been named Israel's Army Chief of Staff in 1953. Nasser had the bigger, better equipped force. To achieve surprise, Dayan delayed general mobilization until the last possible moment before his attack. Then, on Oct. 29, he dropped 395 paratroopers from 16 lumbering Dakotas near the Mitla Pass, only 45 miles from Suez. The first 100 hours...
...Kansas, G.O.P. Congressman Bob Ellsworth is trying to strengthen his long-shot bid to wrest the senatorial nomination from Incumbent James Pearson by demanding redoubled efforts for negotiations and a place for the Viet Cong at the bargaining table...
Motherhood, God, Americanism, and George Chuvalo, the Brian London of the Western Hemisphere, will try to wrest the heavyweight boxing title from world champion Muhammed Ali in Toronto tonight. Las Vegas bookmakers rate Ali the eight-to-one favorite...
Jackson represented the first major presidential challenge to the Senate. He tried to wrest patronage away from the Senate, where it had been a somewhat clubby affair, and largely succeeded in putting it under party control. More important, he sought to establish the concept of the President as the representative of the whole nation. The Jacksonian concept did not immediately prevail. During the Civil War, the Senate was subservient to Lincoln. But with war's end and Lincoln's death, it rapidly reasserted itself and achieved its pinnacle of power if not prestige. Its leaders were party bosses...