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...Pudgy, bald Mario Scelba, Christian Democrat Minister of the Interior, had already thought about it a good deal. Italians would elect a Parliament on April 18. The last thing Scelba wanted was swaggering, uniformed, intimidating bands of Communists and left-wing Socialists marching the streets of Italy. Scelba wanted a law forbidding all private armed organizations. But his cabinet colleagues needed convincing. They feared a row. With a shrewd twinkle in his black eyes, Mario Scelba let scrappy Il Tempo take up the cudgels...
Every weekday morning around 11, a stooped figure with thick glasses, a glistening bald pate and a slight scowl would step off a Broadway bus and trudge to the plain edifice that houses the New York Times. Colleagues on the Times took no offense when kindly Simeon Strunsky failed to return their elevator nods; they all knew that he was nearsighted...
...soul!" That invocative usually heralded a significant pronouncement. His voice, in later years somewhat shrill, had the range of a roller coaster. In cutaway coat with stiff collar and ascot tie, Whitehead paced the lecture platform with hands in pockets. Vestigial tufts of white hair fringing a shiny bald pate made him look, said one pupil, "like an angel whose halo had slipped." Now & then Whitehead arrested his pacing to sketch a deceptively simple blackboard diagram of what he called a "prehension" or to explain patiently what he meant by such Whiteheaded concepts as the "form of flux...
...brought into the open. Of the 99 local, state and federal employees listed, most were minor functionaries. Three employees of the Agriculture Department were listed; none was close to grain-purchasing activities in Washington. There were a few dozen Army and Navy officers, none well known. Utah's bald, Democratic Governor Herbert B. Maw was in the market with 5,000 bushels of wheat...
Nicholas Konstantinovich Roerich, an egg-bald Russian with a twin-pronged beard, spent a lifetime seeking peace and, somehow, disturbing everything he touched. Devoted followers thought he was a genius who could unify humanity through art. Loudmouthed Westbrook Pegler thought he was a quack who wanted to become "head" of Siberia...