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...Churchill's urging, abruptly in 1944 switched to Tito on the grounds that Tito's Partisans were killing more Germans, and that some of Mihailovich's men were collaborating with the Germans. King Peter's Yugoslav government in exile in London was forced to recognize Com munist Tito. Mihailovich was later captured by Tito's Partisans, tried "for treason," and executed...
Local Gain. Until World War II, Sicily contributed far more to Italy than Italy ever gave back. "They grow fat up north with our money," is an old Sicilian com plaint. But in its postwar autonomy, Res tivo and his colleagues are able to claim, Sicily has got 8,500 new schoolrooms, 3,026 kilometers of sorely needed new roads, 131,000 rooms of new housing, a new water system for 247 communities. Total investment by Rome and the regional government in eight years: about $1.5 billion. Tourist business is booming (helped among other things by the visit to ancient...
...drop of 10%. "Half our looms have no orders," said 37-year-old Ronnie Carter, manager of a weaving mill in the town of Padiham (pop. 12,000). "But we're lucky. Two of the town's ten mills have shut down com pletely." The immediate causes were obvious. Australia, Lancashire's best customer, last month slashed its imports of cotton cloth by 33%. In addition, uncertainty over whether the U.S. cotton surplus would be sold abroad at less than cost had led importers everywhere to cut back their textile orders in the hope of lower prices...
...thirds of the Wolverines are sophomores. Many of the varsity skaters are hoping that a quick lead will break their spirit. Center Frank Mahoney com- mented today that "if we can get a real jump on them, perhaps two goals, I think they may get rattled. Most of us played out there last year, though, and something like that shouldn't bother...
...Paris, where the Folies-Bergère ladies wear no blouses and streetwalkers are a major traffic menace, the puritanical elders of the famed Comédie-Française banned a production of Mrs. Warren's Profession, George Bernard Shaw's play about a British prostitute who at least solicited business in private. Rubbing more salt into the wounded realism of France's Shaworshippers, the Comédieans proclaimed that Mrs. Warren was "amoral," and her saga was "very bad and boring...