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...votes, but the Socialists had other resources. On the first day they kept the secretary-general of the lower house, without whose presence no business can take place, holed up in his office for 11½ hours. When the secretary finally got to the chamber, only four minutes of the session were left-Next day the Socialists filibustered so successfully agains: the election of the committee chairmen-u procedure that usually takes 90 minutes-that by the stroke of midnight, only seven men had been named. On the third day the Socialists contested the election of Kishi himself...
...much noise coming from the second floor that they thought a fight was in progress. Entering the building, they went upstairs, where they found "eight or ten young fellows, sitting around, smoking tobacco" in a smoke-filled room that to them looked more like a tavern than a college chamber...
...poverty-stricken southern Italy, where the government has been lavishing billions of lire on public works, that the Christian Democrats picked up almost all of their 1,500,000 new votes. There they scored heavily off the Monarchists and Neo-Fascists, who between them lost 22 of their 69 Chamber seats in the biggest slideaway of the election. Naples' swashbuckling, 70-year-old millionaire Monarchist Achille Lauro, onetime mayor of the city, was not even elected to his old Senate seat, and appeared finished as a serious political force in Italy...
...Christ minister (he has given sermons as a lay preacher, dislikes nightclub dates because his church frowns on drinking and dancing). He studied for a while at North Texas State College, signed on at Columbia in 1956 as a speech major, English minor. Among his senior year courses: chamber music, third year Greek, history and theory of music, movie production. Extracurricular activities: recording sessions, rehearsals for his limp but likable TV show, ukulele concerts for his wife-who is his own age-and four daughters. He averaged six hours of sleep a night while working at Columbia, studied Ibsen...
Greatest achievement of the new regime at St. Bernard has been in winning over the hard-shell Protestant businessmen of Cullman. To do this, the priests became civic boosters, joined the Chamber of Commerce leaders in lassoing new industry, notably a recently arrived cigar manufacturer, whose emissaries were entertained at the college (which knows how to throw a good cocktail party in a dry county). Says Cullman's Mayor Bill Arnold: "St. Bernard is the greatest institution we've got. For the first time we're beginning to feel a cultural upswing. Certainly St. Bernard...