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...representative in Italy, Moscow-trained Comrade Secchia had long possessed authority, secret dossiers and generous allocations of funds with which to build a personal machine within the party. But at the national party conference a fortnight ago, he rashly got himself identified with party diehards, who want to discard Palmiro Togliatti's "soft" policy for tough methods (TIME, Jan. 24). Because Moscow has decreed there should be no public quarrel now, Comrade Togliatti waited his chance to serve a cold dish to Pietro Secchia...
...feel like reading the book, or begin it and find you don't want to go on, put it on your shelves as an investment; don't discard it at a loss. It is strange how you can have a book-or a whole row of books by the same author -on your shelves for years . . . and wonder what on earth made you acquire them. Then suddenly one day . . . you will find yourself picking up the volume, settling down to it, enjoying it, and be completely at a loss to know why you never came to it before...
...already completed in secondary school." Thus Finch's announcement a year later means that the Faculty has been considering the program over a year and that its study is well-advanced. It is believed by Princeton observers that Finch would have refused all comment were the school about to discard consideration of an Advanced Standing Program...
...series of allied reactions which Mendès had not sufficiently anticipated. Shaping up before the French was one of those logical questions that French Premiers have a habit of putting to their allies. France might reject EDC, but is it prepared to go all the way and discard its NATO shield...
...only way left to shorten the inquiry, then, is to stop irrelevant oratory and stay within the scope originally planned. Senator Mundt, as Committee chairman, is the only man who can keep the hearings in line. But to cut down digressions, he will have to discard his smiling manner for the less popular role of bulldog...