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Public Interest. If industry is to lift Italy out of its economic bog, the country will have to depend heavily on IRI (pronounced eerie). But that is what IRI is there for. Founded by Mussolini in 1933 as a hospital for depression-sick companies, IRI provides jobs for nearly 300,000 Italians. Says IRI's genial President Giuseppe Petrilli: "IRI is the state's fundamental instrument for supporting sectors in temporary crisis...
Some ten points below the leaders, Toronto and Detroit have sewed up the other two Stanley Cup Playoff berths. New York, after making a run at the Red Wings in January, has collapsed back to fifth place. The home-town Bruins are mired in their customary last-place bog, as they have been all year...
...allowed some small room for hope-not that his book would offer new material (there has been none discovered since 1931), but that it would somehow be intriguing and different. Alas, Rowse is no further along than his second chapter before it becomes clear that he is going to bog down in much of the traditional blather of Shakespearean biography...
...heather-flecked tweeds or linens welcome passengers aboard "shamrock flights." They feed them in first class on Royal Tara china with such delicacies as grilled Liffey salmon steaks, Irish coffee and Guinness stout. All the while, Irish jigs frolic over the intercom and the captain communicates in a bog-thickened brogue. Such blarney-and the practical advantage that the Irish government permits only state-owned Aer Lingus to land at Dublin as well as Shannon-last year accounted for earnings of $1,300,000 and a fourth year in the black on the transatlantic route...
...ease the effects of a disastrous harvest. Czecho slovakia, Bulgaria and Hungary weighed in with formal bids for another $60 million worth. First reaction in the U.S. was heavily favorable-even Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater said he was for it. But suddenly the whole thing seemed to bog down...