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...concocting headlines for the morning papers. According to Monelli. he even began to lose interest in one of his chief pleasures-that of "receiving" a woman in his office every afternoon. If she was unattractive, the Duce talked to her; if she was pretty, he hurled her onto the carpet ("You can't refuse a man of that importance," said one such lady), and then went straight back to his desk while an attendant picked up the hairpins. A few privileged ladies were rewarded by hearing the great dictator play them a violin sonata, but they received money...
...Express) are traveling in the front compartments of regularly scheduled passenger planes, will visit Paris, Rome, Cairo, Bangkok, New Delhi, Singapore, Honolulu, Havana. The Muggs staff expects to have no trouble with living accommodations; in some cities leading hotels are already grabbing for the honor of rolling the red carpet...
...Boston, Judge Frederick V. McMenimen called Antonio Sardo, 49, "neurotic" for accusing his wife Madeline, 37, of infidelity after she testified that she had been taking care of her ailing mother, supervised all her husband's bookkeeping, worked side by side with him every day in his carpet-cleaning establishment, borne him 16 children...
Along with bigness came trouble. When carpet demand turned down and competition stepped up, the company found it could not operate efficiently in a plant that had grown up haphazardly. The multistoried, scattered buildings could not compete with the compact, straight production lines of other new plants. The company lost...
Last week the company announced that it will close the plant permanently. It will transfer some carpetmaking to a new, nonunion plant in Greenville, Miss., will continue to run a carpet plant in Philadelphia and two other small mills. The union quickly offered to negotiate on the company's original terms, but it was too late. About all that there was left to do was to arrange for pensions for those eligible (almost half the workers had put in 25 or more years of service). Terming the closing "one of the worst catastrophes that has ever fallen...