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...Rome, too, there was a battle. Into the lassitude of falling autumn leaves burst the garish colors of election posters, the shrill sounds of political hoodlumism. One night, when right-wing Socialist Matteo Matteotti tried to speak in a shabby Rome suburb, Communists attacked him and knocked him to the ground (he is the son of Giacomo Matteotti, the Socialist martyr killed by Mussolini's thugs in 1924, whom the Communists still treat as an idol). Another evening, Communists cornered a group of young Christian Democrats. One Catholic youth of 22 was kicked, beaten and knifed to death...
...overture to Sunday's battle was fierce. A Communist-decreed national maritime walkout tied up all French ports for 48 hours; a transport strike in Paris paralyzed the Métro. As Premier Paul Ramadier's Government tried to break the strike, Paris' gentle autumn air grew heavy with menace. Armed, steel-helmeted guards stood outside barricaded subway entrances and bus depots. The Cocos (Paris argot for Communists) accused the Socialists of fomenting the strike, then absurdly belabored the Government for strikebreaking. (After De Gaulle's victory, the Communists prepared to call off the strike...
...women and children and bullocks and groaning carts were plodding eastward and westward beneath the autumn skies and nights of the cloven Punjab; past unharvested fields, past empty villages and eviscerated villages and villages which resemble rained-out brush fires. Huge, forlorn concentrations of Sikhs and Hindus labored forward to leave the West Punjab forever. On one day last week, columns No. 8 and 9 moved across the famous Balloki headworks between Amritsar and Lahore and passed into the Indian Dominion; not far behind, foot columns No. 10, 11 and 12 lumbered steadfastly eastward. Carefully feeling its way around Amritsar...
...University first issued autumn-time sheepskins in 1942, when the university went on its accelerated around-the-calendar schedule...
More seersucker jackets came out of dark closest recesses yesterday as Cambridge continued to swelter through the warmest autumn week in local history. Boston weather bureau officials envisioned no relief for three or four days, although temperatures will probably not climb back to the record-breaking peak of 83 degrees on Saturday...