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...week's end, when the congress broke up, there was some solid evidence that Economist Levy and other delegates had gotten their point across. In Italy's Senate, Don Luigi Sturzo, 83-year-old founder of the Demo-Christian Party, an implacable foe of statism and an old enemy of E.N.I.'s Mattei, rose to demand quick passage of the new mining act. Said he: "There is no good reason why private firms, either Italian or foreign, should not carry out research with their own capital and at their own risk." As for E.N.I, itself, even...
...gotten much worse, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, the President's youngest brother, trusted adviser and president of the university, would have had to move the exercises indoors to the recreation building...
...Sturgess from a couple in Johnson County, Kans. who had been considering moving to Sturgess' part of Kansas City but were frankly nervous about it. "I told them," said Sturgess, "that we have the best neighborhood in the world - that we have created a place where neighbors have gotten together and licked the toughest problem any Americans can face. And the Johnson County people decided to move right...
...Federal agencies, found it worked so well that it is now using them in more than half the nation. To help the Government sell a $90 million chunk of its surplus real estate, GSA called in private brokers to find clients and to close sales. Elsewhere, the Government has gotten rid of a whole grab bag of business activities it got into because nobody else could or would. It liquidated the Island Trading Co., a copra and trading firm (1954 sales: $3,000,000) set up by U.S. occupation officials in the Southwest Pacific, at a net profit...
...successful dawn attack on a Chinese hill position, much of his platoon is wiped out, and he is badly wounded. Back in the aid station, he hears from a dying platoon member the first words of greeting, eloquent in their sense of sudden loss: "I wish I had gotten to know you better...