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Mario Scelba is slow to anger and never reaches heights of flaming oratory. He is the kind of man who writes out all his political pronouncements, follows his script closely and cannot be heckled into indiscretions. Last week, aware of his troubles, modest Mario Scelba, in a speech to 71 delegates of the Demo-Christian National Council, came as close as he ever does to boasting: "We have solved the Trieste problem and approved the Paris accords. We have laid the foundation for closer collaboration with Yugoslavia and have ended the sad chapter of struggle with Great Britain. With...
...supervise construction of the church, he tirelessly wheedled free building materials, organized a native concert and mammoth fairs to raise more money. To the natives, he became known as "Bouloumboulou." or "Assassin," a humorous reference to his driving energy and the awe in which he is held. His anger can indeed be awe-inspiring. Once, when he discovered that a native was being slowly poisoned by an uncle who wanted his property. Father Bureth broke into the man's hut, threatened to flatten both uncle and hut with his five-ton truck. The poisoning process stopped...
...readers must stifle their anger...
...seriously from the vices of professional indignation, special pleading and general rostrumism. Sometimes it seems to raise false eyebrows and to grit false teeth. The resolution of the plot is so facile as to appear insincere. But the picture also has the virtues of its vices: social conscience, honest anger and a narrow but vital kindliness...
Clint Anderson choked back his anger, looked down at the table in front of him, and passed the buck. "I think Senator Pastore will put this his way." Rhode Island's Democratic Senator John Pastore, caught unawares, mumbled: "I think this is now assuming rather ridiculous proportions." Replied Strauss crisply: "I couldn't agree with you more, sir." A few minutes later, Pastore stalked out of the hearing room, muttering "Most unfortunate...