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...nation, Italy is less than a century old; first under the monarchy, then through the long night of Fascism, the country has had little time to accustom itself to democracy. Thus, to many Italians, Communism-or at least their brand of it-does not appear the fearful specter that it does in many other lands...
...Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any-More, by Tennessee Williams, raises the specter of death before a horrible and gallant old woman, magnificently played by Hermione Baddeley, and conjures up the temptations of the world, the flesh and the devil before a Christ figure whom Paul Roebling makes as real as this strange religious allegory will permit...
Counterattacking. There are also some things that Eastman Kodak would be happier not to have to talk about. Prime among them is monopoly; the company controls so much of the U.S. camera-and-film market (more than 40%) that the specter of the trustbusters always looms large. Then there is Polaroid, whose convenient "instant" photographs have caused something of a revolution in the camera industry. Dr. Edwin Land offered to sell his picture-in-a-minute system to Kodak in 1946, but Kodak's deliberative managers figured that the company was already too busy with seemingly surer projects, thought...
Cuba kept on simmering, and the White House kept on patrolling the news with the same steely determination that had put a naval blockade in the Caribbean. But one U.S. daily seemed totally undisturbed by the specter of Government news control...
...accomplishments are not worth the price. She explains that no single town has suffered all the misfortunes from spraying and dusting that she describes; "yet every one of these disasters has actually happened somewhere, and many real communities have already suffered a substantial number of them. A grim specter has crept upon us, and this imagined tragedy may easily become a stark reality...