Word: posterize
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...village of Romlino last week, unschooled Communist peasants, long forbidden to put up tendentious signs, jubilantly pasted up a wall poster that said simply: "We put this up just for the hell of it." Italy's Communists were not the only ones celebrating the explosive first verdict of Italy's spanking new Constitutional Court...
...Good Name. In Eureka, Calif., arrested for forging six checks totaling $230 in the name of District Attorney Harold L. Hammond, currently running for Superior Court judge, Clifford Melton Kusta explained: "I saw the name on a poster and figured it was a name that no one could question...
Died. Raymond Waller, 19, the National Muscular Dystrophy Research Fundation's poster boy since the organization's founding in 1950; after wasting away from the disease for 15 years; in Port Arthur, Texas. Adopted by widowed Mrs. Louise Waller from an orphan home in Austin after he was discovered as an abandoned infant in a Waco movie theater, Raymond fell an early victim to the crippling disease that afflicts some 200,000 people in the U.S. and for which neither cause nor cure is known...
Republicans Remember. Last week an estimated 50,000 workers were on strike in the north of Spain. Clandestine strike propaganda cited the profits made by Spanish enterprises and at least one illegal poster exhorted: "Spanish Republicans, do not forget this day!" Thousands of additional guards were called out to reinforce the already formidable Franco police forces in northern Spain. In a country where strikes are forbidden, the absence of arbitration machinery makes it difficult for the dictatorship to settle the strikes in any way but to crush them...
...souvenir shop next door offers a special on the miniature crowns of thorns made by Arab refugees. The Holy Week price: $1. At the barricaded Jaffa Gate, a pair of Arab Legion sentries stuff hands in pockets against the chill, and a radio blares a newscast. A bright red poster on an ancient wall nearby advertises an American movie, Massacre Canyon...