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Antonio Pallante was no workaday, hireling killer; he belonged to the fevered race of political assassins who act alone. In solitude, Antonio Pallante nursed an obsession. The target of his hatred and his plans was suave, astute Palmiro Togliatti, boss of Italy's Communist Party...
Made of unbreakable Vinylite, the Holt-Army records give four hours of instruction on 44 sides-against one hour and 52 minutes for its long-established competitor, Linguaphone. The Army's 1,200-word vocabulary is commonplace instead of cultural, concentrates on such workaday problems as ordering a meal, seeing the sights, locating the washroom...
...Deadly. In the clean-scrubbed,workaday words of the scientists, the book describes "techniques and results." The very fact that such a book can be published without revealing any real secrets stresses a verbal warning by Dr. Rosebury: "Bacterial warfare can be developed by any nation, large or small, rich or poor, to which the resources of modern bacteriology are available." "Resources," in this case, can mean almost any sort of laboratory...
...tempered fans booed his third-base coaching at Cleveland. He and Bucky had both sunk as low as anyone could in the big leagues: both had suffered as managers of the lowly Philadelphia Phillies. Both had been demoted to the minors and then bounced back. Burt's workaday formula is the same as Bucky's. Says Burt: "When a guy does something wrong, that's no time to get on him. That's the time to build...
Along with the sounds of workaday life, Donato also closed his ears to church bells. Bible study had led him to question the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church...