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When Rocca Massima's Communists saw the construction of the pipeline begin, they wavered in their faith. Soon they began to drift away from meetings in Cianfone's smithy. Last December Cianfone sent a registered letter to Togliatti. Wrote he: "This once flourishing Communist section is dwindling to nothingness. What shall I do?" He got no answer...
Such temperature variations, Hess reasoned, ought to stir up the Martian atmosphere as they do the earth's. For proof that they actually do, he turned to observations of the faint white clouds that sometimes drift across the red surface of Mars. The clouds indicated that Mars, like the earth, has "prevailing westerlies" as well as winds circulating around areas of high or low pressure. He thinks that the lot spots are probably "heat lows" like those that often form in summer in the U.S. southwest...
...main work of his new volume of essays, Aldous Huxley has drawn upon the journals of an obscure French philosopher of the nineteenth century and used them as a basis for expounding his theories about the sad drift of the world. This takes up about three-fifths of "Themes and Variations"; the rest is a jumble of essays ranging from "Variations on El Greco" to a plea for population control...
...drift was continental. Luxury shops in Rio's narrow Rua do Ouvidor featured Czech china, Danish porcelain, Italian pottery. British cars rolled along the boulevards. In Argentina, U.S. goods had all but disappeared. Across the river in Uruguay, the trade trend to Europe also ran strongly. There, where three years ago the U.S. supplied almost half of all imported goods, the British and the Germans had seized the lead. By the terms of a January agreement, Uruguay will buy $70 million worth of goods, perhaps one-third of its 1950 needs, from Germany. The Uruguayan deal was the biggest...
Legrand, 56, does not seem the sort of man to drift about the desert on a camel. Dapper and urbane, he sports a neatly clipped little mustache and a lavender-scented breast-pocket handkerchief, confesses an abiding love for good Parisian food and old brandy. But he loves Morocco more and, except for annual business trips to Paris, plans to stay there. "There are two kinds of time," he explains, "European and African. In Europe you count time by the year; in Africa you count it by thousands of years. The land and the people of Morocco are primitive...