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...next outburst came in the oil town of Petit jean (pop. 70,000). The rumor (entirely false) had got about that Ben Youssef had escaped from Madagascar and was on his way home. A mob collected, and in half-patriotic, half-religious frenzy, turned on Jewish shopkeepers, killing six and burning their bodies...
...pilgrims hustled past her premises and up the nearest mountain to the little (pop. 643) village of Castel San Pietro Romano. For there the rumor had it, a goddess enchantingly more substantial had suddenly come to earth among the amorous groves. Gina Lollobrigida (pronounced low-low-bridge-id-ah) was in town to make a movie...
...Veneto to see the movie stars at play. There they sit at the dime-size sidewalk tables at Doney's and Rosati's and the Strega, or slouch along the bar at the Excelsior Hotel. There, like swarms of gnats, come the hundreds of little middlemen, promoters, rumor touts and inside-kiters who do the dizzy business of making Italian movies. And in the oleander evenings, while the Roman sky turns blue and gold, the "wasps" (motor scooters) snarl through the Via Veneto, and oldtimers sip their Camparis and indolently speculate on the future...
...hours with the crew came out of the meeting and announced: "I don't know a thing boys." Appeals to the U.S. consulate for information brought only the reply, "This is a British affair." One reporter who called the police commissioner at 2 a.m. to check a "rumor" that the plane had been shot down was abruptly cut off: "How dare you disturb...
...only recovered from its nine-point slide of two weeks ago. but kept on climbing. At week's end the Dow-Jones industrial average closed at 332.53, up almost five points in a week. This week the market was still climbing. In one day Du Pont, on the rumor of a stock split, jumped 15½ points to 1433½. Said Commerce Secretary Weeks: "I don't care what others think; I believe the stock market is still one of the best barometers of business this country has." Despite the rising barometer, the Administration was taking no chances...