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...Yawns to Shock. Late last month the doubts erupted dramatically in public. Before a party provincial congress, Magnani made a routine report. As delegates yawned and prepared to recess, Magnani said: "Now I want to talk to you as comrade to comrade...
Yawns swiftly changed to gaping shock. Magnani had blatantly voiced the heresy known as national deviation, or Titoism. Party bigwigs huddled in an emergency meeting, summoned Magnani, demanded his retraction. The dean of Italy's Communist Senators, Umberto Terracini, who himself had once been suspected of deviation, gave Valdo Magnani a confidential caution: "A few years ago, I too wanted to hit against the steel wall, but I broke my fist and it still hurts...
...Righteousness. Until last June the U.N., like the League of Nations before it, often seemed more a dawdling talkfest than a decisive weight in world affairs. Then it met the shock of aggression, as the League had never done. Once more excited to battle, septuagenarian Austin went forth to smite...
Parliament reconvened in somber mood last week after a five-week recess. A dark, lowering sky turned afternoon into night, and a damp mist crept into the House of Commons. M.P.s had plenty to worry about-a coal shortage, a meat shortage, the shock of rearmament on Britain's bareboned economy. But one urgent question overshadowed the others...
Psychologist Wilson got his first shock the first day. He asked the warden for some staff assistants to help administer psychological tests, and the warden simply gestured toward the cell blocks and told him: "You have 2,000 men to choose from." Convict assistants had not figured in Wilson's blueprint. But he wound up with six of them: a safecracker, a smuggler, a counterfeiter, a forger, a gangster and an innocent who had taken the rap for a woman...