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Throughout Italy last week, many another sharp female tongue cut at strait-laced Minister of the Interior Scelba, and his month-old campaign for reform in dress. On city streets and sunlit strands, Scelba's conscientious cops cracked down on bra-top dresses and bathing suits. At Capri and the Lido, dazzling diapered beauties gazed nervously over their strapless shoulders, while the Socialist Avanti, affecting to hear the rustle of churchly robes behind the government's order, cried: "The first arrested will go down in history as martyrs...
...bases in northeast Siberia across the Bering Strait from Alaska, from which they could bomb any city...
Ronne wiped some geography off the map, too. He reported that the Weddell Islands, which Sir Hubert Wilkins and Ronne thought they had seen from the air, did not exist. And he solved what Rear Admiral Byrd once called "the world's greatest unsolved geographical puzzle": whether a strait between the Ross and Weddell Seas actually divides Antarctica in two. Ronne proved that there is no strait...
...Home. At LaGuardia Field, N.Y., the American Airlines' lost & found department was looking interestedly for whatever party lost a case of beer, an automatic backscratcher, three burlesque-type G-strings, a strait jacket...
Gabriel González of Chile was not even listening. As the Presidente Pinto approached the Strait of Magellan, he radioed triumphantly: "It is possible there is uranium in the Antarctic. I am personally carrying many ore samples that I will have analyzed in Santiago...