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...Communists are stronger than anywhere else in India, they already hold 45 seats of the 140-man state legislative assembly, and one drought might tip the political scales in their favor. But Nehru, a canny man when it comes to fighting the Communists in his own country, managed to patch together a coalition between his own Congress Party and a few independents that would give his side a handy majority in Andhra; he located the state capital at Kurnool, far from the Communist pressure groups of the seacoast; he persuaded respected, 85-year-old Tanguturu Prakasam, who quit the Congress...
...journey to Harvard this Saturday, try the Colgate hello tradition in the Harvard Yard. If you get a return hello he doesn't go to Harvard. The Harvard Yard, in case you can't find it, is that patch of grass--jokingly called a campus--which is surrounded by buildings built before the Civil War and looking as though most of the war was fought in them...
...solidly comfortable, nondescript dwelling in which millions of middle-aged Americans spent their childhood. Built of the grey-brown brick favored by Denver architects 40 years ago, it sits right up against its neighbors and is separated from the street only by a short, steep terrace and a patch of fine green lawn. Its wide porch is equipped with a glider and wicker chairs; red geraniums grow in low flower boxes on the railings. Last week, in this unremarkable survival of the parlor era, 75-year-old Mrs. Doud was putting up her daughter...
...Prefer Death." Fatigued and discouraged from two weeks of trying to patch together a parliamentary majority, 72-year-old Premier de Gasperi rose to his feet for one last appeal. Democracy could not compromise with the Red left or the black right and survive, he insisted, speaking calmly but with a dry, bitter awareness of what was to come. The rightists could not be trusted, he said. As for the Communists and the Red Socialists: "We cannot entrust the country to either Communism or a coalition which would fall under the Cominform and invariably lead to forced labor, concentration camps...
...kept an anxious eye on the tinder-dry brush. Late one afternoon, they saw the smoke they feared. (As he confessed later, an unemployed 26-year-old who wanted to raise some cash as a fire fighter had got a blaze going.) In a matter of minutes, a crackling patch of flame was eating through the chaparral...