Word: paste
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Senators to represent the people there, and I am tired of us supplying them with an extra Senator. He votes just like Hubert Humphrey." Estes discarded his old coonskin cap in favor of a straw hat that once belonged to Franklin Roosevelt, and tried his darndest to tiptoe past Tip's torrential accusations...
...divinity student than a political boss, Patrice Lumumba slipped into a rented Cadillac and was whisked off through the sleeping borough of Queens to Manhattan's respectable Barclay Hotel. The V.I.P. luncheons and the ceremonial meetings with U.N. and U.S. representatives might help to mellow Lumumba after the past few weeks of fumbling and failure in his newly independent homeland...
...both the Senate and Chamber of Deputies without the help of the neoFascists. But any one of the supporting parties could clog up Il Motorino's gas line should he show any of the leftist economic notions or excessive Catholic zeal that have toppled his governments in the past. A major clause in the coalition agreement negotiated by Fanfani provides that if any one of the minority parties withdraws its support, the government will resign whether it can muster a parliamentary majority or not. Thus though the atmosphere is, as Turin's La Stampa editorialized, "one of relief...
...basically change Italy's stultified political structure. Political power is the exclusive monopoly of the Christian Democrats, backed by the Roman Catholic Church and a shifting coalition of minority parties determined to prevent the Communists, Italy's second largest party, from attaining power. In office for the past seven years, the Christian Democrats have turned complacent, done little to redress the squalid poverty of much of Italy, become a flaccid party of petty corruption. The factories of the north are booming, and Italy is gradually developing a thriving middle class. But the arid south and the poor...
...holding home-distilling permits; in some departments, there is a home still for every other adult male, with a gallon and a half of illegal booze produced for every gallon distilled under legal limitations. Furthermore, the ocean of homemade booze was killing too many Frenchmen, he argued. "In the past 14 years,'' said Debré, "total deaths from alcoholism have multiplied by twelve, deaths from cirrhosis of the liver by six, and entries into hospitals for alcoholic psychosis by 18. Do you know that half the crimes in France are due to alcoholism?" The Assembly broke into...