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...when radio came along, he abandoned his props, relied for laughs on his natural lisp and his unnatural giggle. By the early '30s, he was a big-timer as the Texaco Fire Chief-one of the first com ics to kid the sponsor. "I'll stick to my horse," he once twitted. "He doesn't have to be repainted every year...
...polls. In 1963's national election, for example, the Reds picked up 1,000,000 additional votes - which led them to feel that they had every reason to expect heightened success in last week's 171 municipal and provin cial elections. As it happened, the Com munists were due for a disappointment...
...companies that wish to merge. In the past eleven years, the high court has decided in favor of the Justice Department in 45 out of 50 antitrust cases; for seven years, it has not ruled once against the Government's other arm of antimerger enforcement, the Federal Trade Com mission. In that record, remarked Jus tice Potter Stewart recently, one consistency stands out: "The Government always wins...
Biggest of the builders is Milan's Impregilo, which is a permanent com bine of three firms. It is responsible for four African dams, another in Iran, and one under way on the Euphrates River in Turkey. Along with these projects, worth $300 million altogether, Impregilo recently outbid an Anglo-German consortium for a $250 million hydroelectric project on Peru's Mantaro River. Tackling smaller-paying jobs as well, Impregilo is helping move the temples of Abu Simbel before the area is fully flooded...
...visionary also chained himself to his work table for nights on end, compulsively churning out that prodigious torrent of words that is his own monument and literature's as well. Old Goriot, Lost Illusions, Louis Lambert, Droll Stories, Eugénie Grandet-these and other components of Comédie, his grand design, enjoy a special favor on the shelf of classics that not many others there can claim: they can be read today just for pleasure, by nonscholars, without respect to their literary pedigree...