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...Strange Twinkle." Ostilio and Santina are Christian Democrats. The village mayor, councillors and all the other officials are Communists. They decided to get rid of Ostilio and Santina. A few weeks ago the Communists brought from Modena the official party photographer, Mario Botti. He set up his camera in the room adjoining the registrar's office, drilled a hole through the wall, pierced the portrait so that the camera lens peered through Garibaldi...
...trying to rid L.S.U. of what he called its "candy and cake" atmosphere, President Stoke found himself bogged down in scores of minor squabbles. He had to worry about campus traffic regulations and cutting down the number and speed of student convertibles ("We must decide whether we want to be a university or a country club"). He fought with Athletic Director T. P. ("Red") Heard, who wanted to enlarge the football stadium, while Stoke aimed to put football in its place as "just another university activity...
...such as the inaugural ball which had been planned in honor of South Carolina's Governor-elect Jimmy Byrnes, were canceled. New Yorkers began the wildest scramble for new automobiles which car dealers had ever seen-one Nash dealer with a normal Saturday sale of five cars got rid of 26 in a few wild hours. Chester Thurston, a citizen of Albuquerque, proudly announced that he had just finished construction of a combination fruit cellar and atomic refuge with a roof of 24-in. reinforced concrete. But, in general, the noisy placidity of U.S. life was undisturbed...
While building up his own, homemade kind of statism, Argentina's President Perón has always professed to be opposed to Communism. Last week Juan Perón, no student of political economy, announced his own homemade formula for getting rid of Communism: get rid of capitalism first...
...principal of a school in Columbia County complained: "We can't seem to get rid of the rats." In an Irwin County school's auditorium, desks had been turned over to make a bin to store the school's lunchroom potatoes ("The only place we have," said the principal...