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...fertile valley of the Rapido, below Monte Cassino, the seed buried in the spring had germinated and borne fruit. Columns of two-wheeled donkey carts, piled high with long sheaves of grain, wound slowly along the dusty roads to the marketplaces. High above, on a barren hill, the ruins of one of Christendom's most famous and ancient abbeys gleamed chalk white...
Three months ago Maria announced that she would die on the night of the Feast of the Assumption, Aug. 15. When the day arrived, the village of San Giovanni Lupatoto was crowded with 20,000 visitors. They came afoot, on bicycles or riding two-wheeled donkey carts. As they waited for Maria's death, their own life brawled through the narrow streets. Barrels of wine flowed at the village inns. Sidewalk loafers opened up parking lots for bicycles, hawked Maria's autograph to dusty pilgrims. In the village square a rusty gramophone was grinding out popular waltz tunes...
...trappings. The town swarmed with Cabinet officers, Administration czars and such exhausted sparks of former party glory as Indiana's Paul McNutt. There was bunting in the streets and bourbon on the table. Democratic headquarters passed out Victory Kits containing whistles, Truman buttons, cigarette lighters. A papier mache donkey-which shook its head and flashed its eyes-was set up on the marquee of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel to replace the Republican's sausagey balloon-rubber elephant...
...closing days, the smooth-running 80th Congress clanked and rattled like a leaky donkey engine. Amid the wheeze and hiss of escaping oratory and the crunch of jammed legislative gears, responsible Republican leaders set themselves a double objective. They wanted to adjourn in time for the G.O.P. convention, but they did not want to see the Soth's record marred by last-minute haste...
...critics say he is a confirmed fence-straddler who rides the donkey and the elephant at the same time, a phony liberal who proposes social reforms with one hand and fails to push them through with the other, a bullheaded, plodding mediocrity who never says or does anything out of the ordinary...