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Even with Fanfani out, the Christian Democrats still could not decide on a single candidate. As the balloting droned on into Italy's longest electoral deadlock, impatient Italians recalled the 13th century papal conclave at Viterbo that lasted for 31 years without naming a new Pope. In that long-ago time, the citizens of Viterbo finally locked the cardinals inside a palace, and when that failed, they tore off the roof to let in rain and cold. That did it, and the cardinals elected Gregory...
...Michigan: a 34-7 rout of Oregon State, in the Rose Bowl at Pasadena. Spotting the upset-minded Beavers a 7-0 lead, the Big Ten Champion Wolverines roared back on the running of 201-Ib. Fullback Mel Anthony, who scored three times, once on an 84-yd. dash -longest in the Rose Bowl's 51-year history...
...much to sell. If I fill it with merchandise, I have something to sell." Straus began all over again as a junior buyer, did so well on the way back up that he was made boss 25 years ago-a fact that makes him one of the longest-reigning corporate chiefs...
...enemy companies seized by the U.S. Government during World War II the chemicals, camera-and copy-equipment complex of General Aniline & Film Corp. was by far the biggest. It has also been the longest held by the Government. Taken over in 1942 on grounds that its Swiss owners were a front for Germany's massive I.G. Farben, GAF has remained a Government fief while the Swiss and the Justice Department battled over the 93.5% interest involved (the other 6.5% is publicly held). Last week, with a compromise finally hammered out, Justice announced that it will sell 11.1 million shares...
...celebrating sex as a gloriously human temptation; he is exploiting it as a commodity -and he wears a lascivious grin where his satirical smile ought to be. The result, spelled out in dialogue that sounds like a series of gamy punch lines, is one of the longest traveling-salesman stories ever committed to film. Like all dirty jokes, it will probably evoke a shock wave of self-conscious laughter and pass swiftly into oblivion...