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Shouted a party member from the rear of the crowded ballroom: "Let's talk about Stalinists and anti-Stalinists!" The challenge shocked the 4,000 comrades who jammed Bologna's ornate 13th century Palazzo del Podestá. For as long as he could, the speaker, Italian Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti, ignored the interruption and continued his prepared address on national politics. Just before he finished, Togliatti replied to the heckler: "We are for the socialist revolution, which has opened the road to a new society. This society has been built by the Soviet Union. Who built...
...miles of track crisscrossing the big industrial areas from Boston to St. Louis. With assets of $4.2 billion and combined annual revenue of $1.5 billion or more, the new Penn Central line would tower far above any other U.S. railroad and with its subsidiaries would rank as the 13th largest corporation in the country...
...LADY, by Howard Spring (448 pp.; Harper; $4.95). Author Spring's 13th novel chronicles the tangled destinies of the Chown family, whose women have a marked tendency to produce bastards. The narrator is George Ledra, the somewhat stuffy scion of a Manchester cotton broker. On vacation in Cornwall, 15-year-old George one felicitous morning hides in the bushes above a beach to watch Sylvia Chown Bascombe and her daughter Janet "wade naked ashore, glistening in the sunshine. They were both beautiful, the one full-breasted, the other budding." It was, thinks George, "a moment that belonged...
...reasonably well dressed, and cities are quite crowded with automobiles. Strangely enough, the only poverty I noticed was in one of Ljubljana's best visited tourist attractions, the large castle on a bluff in the middle of town from which the city was defended against Turkish invasions from the 13th to the 17th century...
...With him went almost everyone of importance in Spain: Cabinet ministers in frock coats, generals and admirals weighted down with medals, Falangists in blue shirts and white coats, and tens of thousands of Castilian peasants, stiffly dressed in their Sunday best. After High Mass and Te Deum in the 13th century cathedral, Dictator Franco went to the Plaza Mayor and told the crowd, in his reedy monotone, that he had defeated Communism and given his countrymen more than two decades of peace. He warned darkly that "liberal democracy easily ends in Communism...