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...present equation of Italian politics. A center-left coalition of Christian Democrats and Socialists, headed by former Premier Mariano Rumor, fell apart last month over what measures should be taken to deal with the emergency, and President Giovanni Leone has so far been unable to find anyone who can patch together another government. Amintore Fanfani, the secretary of the Christian Democrats and perhaps the strongest political figure in the country, tried and failed. Last week Leone asked Foreign Minister Aldo Moro, who has three times before served as Premier (1963-68), to see if he would have better luck...
...surprisingly short order, Mayor Moyer has done just that. He has started a new, moneymaking transit system with five buses complete with carpeting and ste reo. He has arranged for welfare recipients to clean streets and plant shrubs, ivy and trees. He has encouraged the Neighborhood Youth Corps to patch up the old train station, thereby enabling Amtrak to reopen it for passenger ser vice a year ahead of schedule...
What is it that keeps them going? What inspires those guys who stare enviously at a patch of bench or the ones who'll never even dress for the J.V. scrimmage? Oh, they'll tell you it's for "the love of the game," or some other well-bandied phrase, but a more perceptive eye sees right through that centennial helmet--right down to that last big game, that vestige of glory--the previous senior year...
...notebooks, they would certainly have transformed the extremely crude face of Renaissance mechanics, bringing it to the pitch of sophistication the Chinese had reached four centuries earlier. That did not happen, and so by now the value of the Madrid codices is entirely historical: a large and beautiful patch of tesserae added to that gapped, puzzling mosaic of Leonardo's thought. One can only thank McGraw-Hill for presenting it with such dogged and fastidious care...
Fresh from his fascistic triumphs as a vigilante on the sidewalks of New York in Death Wish, busy Charles Bronson is now giving equal time to liberalmindedness. As Mr. Majestyk, he plays a farmer trying to keep the Mafia out of his melon patch and a nice crew of Mexican migrants at work there, labor goons notwithstanding. Bronson's style is more suited to the open country than it is to the urban landscape...