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...jump. Last week L'Unità itself was jumping for joy. After winding up its 30th anniversary celebration, including circulation-building, mass meetings addressed by party brass and "medals of honor" for widows and children of devoted L'Unità workers, the paper got another circulation boost from the Wilma Montesi scandal (see FOREIGN NEWS). Beamed one of L'Unità's top executives: "L'Unità is absolutely the biggest Communist newspaper outside the People's Democracies...
...engine production will get a boost next year through a $1,100,000 deal between Crucible Steel Co. and the National Research Corp. For 25,000 shares of stock, the steel company has bought a half interest in National Research Corp.'s subsidiary Vacuum Metals Corp., the only cornmercial producer of high-purity metals by the vacuum melting process. Vacuum Metals will expand production 500% to more than 100 tons of metal a month for navigation instrument bearings and turbine blades...
...Student Council is tinkering with its elections system again. In the past there has been complaints that cliques of undergraduates have been taking advantage of the present system to boost into a Council position some friends of theirs who was completely unknown to the rest of the College into a Council position. Often a man could win with votes from only one House. This saddled the Council with candidates of cliques, and students more acceptable to the wider undergraduate body lost...
Against such formidable opposition, Mario Scelba needed every vote and every boost he could muster. The most dramatic boost came from a distinguished quarter: Don Luigi Sturzo, the aged (82) priest who founded the Christian Democratic Party but now lives deep in the background like a brooding, often disapproving party conscience. Because Catholic Italy resents clericalism in politics, Christian Democratic leaders like Alcide de Gasperi try to minimize their ties with the Vatican, but that is not enough for Don Sturzo; he objects to any relationship at all. Last week Don Luigi paid a rare visit to the Senate, where...
...escape the quotas of the Brannan Plan, Congress approved a program authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to purchase enough of certain non-perishable crops to boost their price to 90 percent of parity. During the past two years, when foreign demand for agricultural products dipped drastically, the current price support program prevented what could have been a severe farm crisis. In this respect the plan has worked well...