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Italy's Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti has long been the most prominent exponent of the respectable (or blue-serge-suit) school of Communism, which advocates conquest of power by fooling the people instead of shooting them. Last week, Togliatti decided that, since his party was losing ground, he would be a Communist with hair on his chest. Cried he before a cheering crowd at Modena...
...Elizabethan age, big with luxury, vanity, conquest and high emprise, also produced the English miniature. It was the Century of the Uncommon Man. The art of the miniaturist, wrote Miniaturist Nicholas Hilliard in 1600, is "a thing apart from all other painting or drawing, and tendeth not to common men's use . . . and is for the service of noble persons, very meet in small volumes in private manner for them to have portraits and pictures of themselves, their peers and any other...
Said Marshall: "No conditions were attached to this withdrawal. . . . No political parties . . . have been left behind in European countries to attempt conquest of governments from within. No American agents have sought to dominate the police establishments of European countries...
...Argentina Evita holds the official title of "First Samaritan," but whether her unbounded love for the masses has been repaid in kind is open to question. Eva has few close friends and many bitter enemies in the land of her conquest. Even the most ardent Peronistas are divided as to whether she is a boon or a blight. She constantly interferes in state affairs, and certain it is that her highhanded palace intrigues have earned Perón many an enemy he might not otherwise have had. Last fall Eva threw the Argentine Senate into a furor when she charged into...
...Reproduction. Soon after the conquest the Spaniards had altitude trouble. At first they planned to make their headquarters at Jauja (11,000 feet), but they moved to coastal Lima because "neither in the town nor in any part of the sierra can pigs, horses or birds be bred...