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...announcement that he would fast for ten days rallied support from leading Italian intellectuals, would-be intellectuals and influential admirers all over the world. After Dolci had gone nine days without food in a flyblown little room off the Piazza Matrice, the town square, a Christian Democrat bigwig from Palermo announced to the crowds that the government would start building the dam in November 1964 and, if it proved impractical, promised that the money would be spent on other needed projects in the area. It seemed a long time to wait, but then waiting is a way of life...
Party Post. Voros was never a party bigwig, although he rose to be appointed to the patsy post of campaign manager for Earl Browder in the 1936 presidential elections; it suited Voros, who at his intellectual best was very woolly on Marxist theory. This philosophical fuzziness saved him; he stubbornly remained human. Ordered to Spain in 1937, he was promoted to chief of the Anglo-American section of the historical section of the International Brigade. It seems to have been one of the party's mistakes. Voros did not have it in him to be an executioner...
Home & Abroad. After a chummy meeting with Nikita Khrushchev in Russia, "Neutralist" Prince Souvanna Phouma seemed to become more Communist-minded with every new Communist bigwig he met, every big reception they organized for him. In Peking, he was met at the airport by Premier Chou En-lai and, together with his half brother and traveling companion, Red Prince Souphanouvong, was flown to the lakeside resort of Hangchow for a personal chat with Mao Tse-tung. Souvanna emerged warmly telling his Red Chinese hosts: "When we again have peace, it is to you we shall turn for aid in building...
Kansas. White-thatched Andy Schoeppel, 65, seeking his third Senate term, has backslapped his way through the state to hold an edge over Frank Theis, 49, a humorless lawyer and a Democratic Party bigwig. Despite a lackluster record, Schoeppel has a way with Kansas voters ("He just looks like a Senator...
...Roitschwantz passed up the opportunity of becoming Spartacus Rosaluxemburgsky. Adopting two saints' names in the hagiography of Marxism* was his last chance to stay out of trouble. Instead, he sighs the wrong sort of sigh ("a purely pathological phenomenon") before a poster mourning the death of a party bigwig; he is denounced for antiSemitism, mysticism and "morbid eroticism"-being in love. Furthermore, he cannot get the Chinese question fixed in his mind. He is jailed but eventually wangles a job in the Department of Animal Breeding supervising the production of purebred rabbits for the entire district. The pair...