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Suddenly, like a taut fiddle string, one of the cables snapped. The bridge floor flipped sideways, sent a stream of men, women & children cascading into the river. A few lucky ones at the bridge ends saved themselves. A few more scrambled out of the water. But most were killed on the rocks below, or were drowned in the rushing Minero...
Palmiro Togliatti's Italian Communists last week decided to test their muscles. For the experiment they chose Rome itself. The action consisted of a taut parade of 30,000 Communist partisans, followed by a general strike-all painstakingly stage-set as a pageant of Communist power. But the action drifted away from the script; toward the end there were touches of Mardi gras and, finally, Italian Communism's worst humiliation...
From loudspeakers in Soviet homes, parks, and on street corners the deep, resonant voice of Radio Moscow's ace announcer, Yuri Levitan, boomed bad & good news. Soviet citizens grew taut with strain as they listened to Levitan read a state decree. When he finished they erupted with grief or joy depending on the number of rubles each had hoarded under his mattress. The decree abolished: 1) 90% of all unbanked individual savings; 2) rationing of food and clothing...
...patient, a middle-aged businessman, faced the sanatorium psychiatrist defiantly. His wife was leaving him and his business partner was quitting. In the last, taut stage of a prodigious binge, the patient announced importantly that he had come to "dry out" again...
...were the U.S.'s George Marshall and Britain's Ernie Bevin. Marshall dominated the room. He sat quite erect as always, listening to everything, talking least of all. But whenever he did speak, or even when he made a discernible movement among his papers, he got instant, taut attention. Bevin spoke in bursts, slumped back in his chair betweentimes. Sometimes, to the horrified fascination of others at the table, he rolled his false teeth (new last year) gently back & forth in his great jaws...