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...together a coalition Cabinet that was acceptable to the same grouping of center and left-wing parties that has ruled Italy, after a fashion, for the past seven years. It was the third government under Rumor, a 53-year-old bachelor and former schoolteacher, and Italy's 28th in 25 years...
...fall 1971, students will pay more than $600, twice the current so-called "fees." In 1968, the voters rejected U.C.'s request for a building bond issue. A decade ago, California ranked sixth in state support of higher education; as the '70s dawned, it had fallen to 28th...
Weak Governments. To a considerable degree, the outflow of lire also reflects Italy's political troubles. Last week President Giuseppe Saragat was seeking someone to try to form the country's 28th Cabinet since World War II, following the resignation of Premier Mariano Rumor. Progressively weaker governments have failed to grapple with the country's Byzantine state bureaucracy or to create an attractive climate for investors by, for instance, modernizing Italy's corporate laws. Investors avoid the Italian stock exchange, because manipulation by insiders is common and because disclosure of corporate revenues and profits is minimal...
...Hitler's Last Great Gamble" [Dec. 19]: Any member of the U.S. Army's 28th Infantry stationed near the Our River separating northeastern Luxembourg from Germany who went on a reconnaissance patrol or was at a forward post during the three days preceding the attack knew that something big was brewing. For eight hours preceding the attack, the skies over the river were illuminated by giant searchlights enabling tanks and troops to assemble and cross the river -and all this was dutifully reported back to headquarters by us "dogfaces." U.S. Intelligence wasn't unaware. They either underestimated...
Then, with scarcely a pause, he began work on The Milky Way, which he also called his finale. Yet before he and the century have completed their seventh decade, he will have directed his 28th film, Tristana. With another director, such ambiguities of statement and action might seem a bit bizarre; with Buñuel, they are entirely in character. Since his youth, he has fashioned a career from contradictions. The first-born son of a Spanish bourgeois father and an aristocratic mother, Luis became a brilliant pupil of Jesuit tutors. But upon reading Darwin's The Origin...