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...recession is an expensive luxury," said Central Intelligence Agency Director Allen Dulles to 700 U.S. Chamber of Commerce delegates after a satisfying lunch of ham with raisin sauce and apple pie with cheese in Washington's flossy Mayflower Hotel. "Soviet propagandists have had a field day in recent months pounding away at American free enterprise." And just in case some complacent citizens, including a few drowsy ones in his audience, did not know that the Soviet economy is coming up fast to make it a real race, Dulles ticked off some dry facts...
Malagodi's party, which has a proud past, is today one of the smallest (13 seats) in Italy's Chamber of Deputies, cannot muster sufficient money or manpower to match the lavish campaign efforts of its bigger rivals. To compensate, hard-driving Giovanni Malagodi has taken up a device foreign to Italian politics-the whistle-stop tour. Since last October, traveling alone, he has spoken, rain or shine, in hundreds of cities, towns and villages from Sicily to Piedmont. In the process, his level, rasping voice has won more attention than that of any other Italian politician...
...Democrats will have to increase their ballot by between 500,000 and 1,000,000 votes in order not to lose parliamentary seats. By contrast, an increase of only 400,000 votes-half what they polled in the last election-could double the number of Liberal seats in the Chamber of Deputies...
...House, the island legislative building that serves as temporary headquarters for the new West Indies Federation, a packed chamber of officials had been waiting for half an hour, sweating in white wool wigs and red and black robes. The princess walked to the speaker's platform and eased into the bliss of an "air-conditioned" chair. While the pipes underneath blew cool air up around her, Margaret read the Queen's congratulations and her own on the new union. Prime Minister Sir Grantley Herbert Adams responded, and with this the federal legislature, elected March 25, was inaugurated...
...little larger than a wrestling ring, with the audience almost embarrassingly close to the action. Fortunately the stage is never called upon to accommodate more than two principals in each scene, except during scene changes, which are as breathless as the dramatic action and appropriately effected by scurrying chamber maids...