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...Italian practice. For small businessmen, the Communists have slashed bureaucratic red tape. For farmers, they have set up cooperatives that take care of everything from buying their machinery to marketing their produce, which includes 80% of the world's supply of Parmesan cheese. New arrivals from the poverty-stricken south always find a party representative on hand at the railroad station or bus depot to point the way to a job, to housing or to party-run community centers with cut-rate bars and restaurants. Many of Italy's beaches are open sewers, but in Rimini, on Emilia...
...airport in Iran, where the Pope greeted a small crowd of Iranian Roman Catholics and conferred for 30 minutes with Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi. It was long after midnight before the papal plane reached Dacca, where Paul stopped only long enough to deliver a message of sympathy to the stricken East Pakistanis and a contribution of $10,000 toward the relief of the starving victims of the recent cyclone and tidal wave. Even in the air, the Pope was busy, dispatching messages to countries he overflew. Among the recipients were the Presidents of both North and South Viet...
...drawn, constantly asking for water as he spoke, several times he apologized to those in the courtroom for "not being very sharp today." Each time he tried to explain that he'd been kept in solitary for three days, the judge would silence him and order the remarks stricken from the record. Finally, Dan burst out to tell the packed room that he would neither eat nor drink until he was back in Danbury, as a way of protesting the brutal treatment given to prisoners who are in transit from one jail to another. He had been taken from Danbury...
...publishing world, spiraling production costs and recession-stricken advertisers have drained profits from scores of newspapers and periodicals. Riding out trouble requires original and, to the uninitiated, drastic tactics. Instance: last week Cowles Communications, the owner of 29 trade journals and magazines (among them Look), three newspapers, three radio stations and three television stations, found it necessary to sell some of its most profitable holdings to the New York Times Co. for stock worth approximately $50 million and the Times's assumption of a $15 million Cowles debt...
There are 20 cases of gonorrhea for each case of syphilis. Although men inevitably have a discharge and a sore if stricken by gonorrhea, two thirds of the female gonorrhea cases are asyptomatic. Fiumara, who is also a clinical instructor in dermatology at the Medical School, said, "The poor female doesn't know she has it unless the male tells her he's been exposed...