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Careful Course. The committee bill steered a careful course between what Europe could accept and what the U.S. felt it needed as assurance that ERP would not be a running drain on the U.S. taxpayer. The bill did not attempt to ram conditions down Europe's throat. It simply expressed "the hope . . . that these countries through a joint organization will exert sustained common efforts which will speed the achievement of that economic cooperation which is essential for lasting peace and prosperity...
...delegates voted. Less than 1% agreed with Lombardo. The union with the new popular front was consummated. Italy's Socialists had crawled down the lion's throat. The combined Socialist-Communist Parties had at least a fair chance of winning in the April elections...
...over a year, Italian Socialists (except a small, staunch group under Saragat which seceded in January 1947) have slavishly cooperated with the Communists. Now, with its head in the lion's mouth, the Socialist Party would have to decide whether to crawl right down the lion's throat: if it entered the front, its candidates would appear on joint Communist-Socialist ballots in the Italian national elections next April...
...that he had got a note demanding $50,000 on pain of death. Crump paid, said he-one cent postage due on the letter. He took a brown grip to a designated spot and left it there for 40 minutes, but nobody came for it. So Crump cleared his throat and read to reporters the contents of the grip: "To the coward perpetrating this dastardly thing: anyone could take a white mouse with baby teeth and run you in the Mississippi River...
...other disease puzzled the Los Angeles Health Department, which blamed it on virus X (so called because its nature is unknown). Its victims commonly suffer gastrointestinal upsets, occasionally inflammation of the nose and throat, and flu-like general aches & pains. Last week, the Los Angeles area had 200,000 victims of virus X. Doctors said there was no connection between virus X and either Q fever or ordinary flu, advised patients: "Call a doctor...