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...Prize for the Big Balloon. The frustrated Communists howled. "They are pulling a fast one," shrieked a party newspaper Il Paesa. "The Feast of Us Others is being changed to the Feast of Them There . . . Them There are the people who argue only with 1,000 lira bills . . . people who would change into toothpaste advertising even the pictures of Raphael . . ." The Communists' final blow came when they discovered that the opposition had cornered all police permits for the feast. The police took the position that if the Communists and the anti-Communists both hold processions for the Madonna...
Italy reported a rise in industrial production and stabilization of the lira. Britain's rundown industrial machine was gradually winding up again. In two months, production in Western Germany climbed 20%, bringing it to 60% of the 1936 level. More important, Ruhr iron and steel production set a new postwar record...
President Einaudi had assets that outweighed the lack of a black suit. The frail 74-year-old economist was a nonparty man who (as Minister of the Budget) had masterminded devaluation of the lira last winter, checked Italy's inflation. He was the one man that Premier de Gasperi's Christian Democrats and their main parliamentary allies-the Saragat Socialists and the Republicans-could agree on. And, though he was antiCommunist, even the Reds joined the applause when Einaudi (in his grey suit) was sworn...
...wear to their jobs; one to putter in. "He's one of us," said a white-collar worker as Romans turned out for the Inauguration Day holiday. Added a woman in a blue apron: "He was never one to take the State's money. He saved the lira. He deserves not to pay rent for seven years...
Into Rio's Palacio Tiradentes one afternoon this week strode well-groomed Professor Pereira Lira, President Eurico Gaspar Dutra's personal counselor. He carried a heavy, leather-bound pile of papers, which he placed on the speaker's desk in the Chamber of Deputies. To the opening session of the Brazilian Congress the president had sent a 130,000-word message on the state of the nation...