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...Premier Scelba had made his point and the Red balloon was pricked. The Christian Democrats and their allies held solidly together; the Red move to oust Scelba on a vote of confidence was defeated...
Life of a Balloon. More afraid of his friends than of his enemies, Mussolini began to do his utmost to appease the friends. As Biographer Monelli sees it. he was terrified into terrorizing Italy. In 1925, "the Fascist regime became a regime of force," all opposition was suppressed, total censorship clamped on the newspapers. His followers made sure that the Duce's balloon of a phony identity was not punctured by public scorn. They kept him surrounded by "policemen in various disguises" playing the equally phony role of "fanatical admirers." These cops, known as "the Presidential Division," became...
...recent fiction: a four-inch china doll. Impunity, like Ibsen's Nora, rebels against the doll's house, so Author Godden (The River, Black Narcissus) treats her to a high old time as the mascot of a bunch of boys who send her aloft with a toy balloon, spin her on a Catherine wheel and race her across a pond in a toy yacht...
...American Physical Society Convention in Seattle last week, Dr. Marcel Schein of the University of Chicago had news to make even a sensation-jaded physicist draw a sharp breath. Last winter, he reported, he and his assistants tied a pack of photographic plates to a balloon, sent them up to 100,000 ft. over Texas to be exposed to the powerful primary cosmic rays that bombard the top of the atmosphere. Later, studying the plates in the laboratory, Dr. Schein got more and more excited as he followed a peculiar ray track through the pack. The track was a bundle...
firm's own balloon-tired "Roadmasters." Raleigh Industries, Ltd., which has an assembly plant in Boston, this spring started to supply all the lightweight bikes for Huffman Manufacturing Co. of Dayton, Ohio ("Huffy"). B.S.A. Cycles...