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...Macmillan returned to London bedecked with honors and praise, only to see the Conservatives go down to defeat. In the debacle he lost his own Stockton seat, but soon returned to Parliament from the safe constituency of Bromley, near London. In opposition, he turned his acid tongue on the Socialists ("The brave new world has turned into nothing but fish and Cripps"), but was gratified to find himself no longer a rebel in his own party-it now agreed with him. Laborites detested his tart, hectoring manner. The Laborite Daily Herald snapped: "He merely gibes and sneers and ogles...
...mines around the ancient spa of Montecatini, the company perked along modestly until 1910, when hard-driving Guido Donegani, a young mining engineer, moved into the presidency and set out to build a self-contained empire. He began mining the area's neglected iron pyrite deposits (for sulphuric acid), then built a plant to process the pyrite wastes, and extracted 600,000 tons of pig iron yearly-a boon for iron-poor Italy. He made blasting powder for his own mines and turned Catini into Italy's No. 1 explosives manufacturer. Long before industry as a whole appreciated...
After deliberating for only 88 minutes, a Manhattan jury last week convicted three minor figures in the acid blinding of Labor Columnist Victor Riesel (TIME, Sept. 10 et ante). Two were sentenced to five years in federal prison, the other to two years. Scheduled for trial this week: Mob Chief Johnny Dio (real name: Dioguardi), 42, charged with plotting the attack to keep Riesel from testifying in a grand-jury investigation of trucking-and garment-industry rackets...
Precocious Novelist Franchise Sagan, 21, is probably France's most successful export to the U.S. since French fried potatoes and Chanel No. 5. Her neat, sentimentally acid little accounts of old-hearted juveniles and middle-aged delinquents were widely cheered by the critics, eagerly bought by the customers. Still on the bestseller list after 16 weeks is A Certain Smile (TiME, Aug. 20), a thin quadrangle story about an ever-so-wise teenager, her ever-so-world-weary lover, the lover's all-understanding wife and the girl's rather sappy boy friend. In Harper...
...like Banal to say the obvious . . . Why must we chatter fruitlessly and endlessly about philosophy and politics? I confess that I am only interested in questions that touch the heart of another human being-"Who are you sleeping with?"; "What do you take for quick relief from acid indigestion...