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When Italy's Left-Wing Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni visited Moscow last July, he was granted a rare privilege: a personal interview with Stalin. Back home, Nenni became the first salesman to peddle the Kremlin's bright new line of peace goods. He offered it first to shrewd, 71-year-old Premier Alcide de Gasperi. When DeGasperi refused even to finger the wares from Moscow, Nenni last week took them to the floor of Italy's Chamber of Deputies...
Lulu says nothing about his chances for the German throne, and he gives the impression that he is not wasting much effort in that direction. He seems to be following a shrewd piece of advice that was given him one day by a Ford employee at Dearborn: "Louis, my boy," he said, "never forget this. If you keep your [backside] flat on the ground, you cannot fall very...
Vision & Venom. Shrewd Premier Pinay, who likes to pose as no politician, just a technician, had lasted in office seven months. But as the National Assembly prepared to convene after a three months' recess, he was in a hot fight for survival. "I have the people behind me and Parliament in front of me," Pinay often says. His opposition in Parliament-Gaullists, Communists, and to some extent, Socialists -were all crying for the head of Pinay's Foreign Minister, Robert Schuman...
...Some shrewd lawyers told Allan Shivers that under Texas law this would be an illegal use of the Democratic label. (The judgment of his legal advisers was confirmed when a district court last week threw out an attempt to get a "Texas Democratic" ticket on the ballot.) Shivers stayed up until 4 a.m. writing his speech to the year's second Democratic state convention, urging it to take the course it eventually took: put Stevenson and Sparkman on the ballot, but work against them...
Carlotta, says one of her friends, is possessed by "the Zeitgeist." For her, everything runs by fad: in the '30s she marched in Union Square, now she cultivates her ego. Still beautiful in middle age, her mind as sleek as her skin, shrewd in business, burning with vanity, oozing prefabricated charm, she personifies the glossiest in Manhattan nightclub and summer-resort society. One weekend, in the summer of 1950, while the radio hums with reports of war in Korea, Carlotta throws a party in East Hampton for a speculator in money and models, a fellow-traveling movie director...