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...influential U.S. farm organization, Shuman has almost invariably been ignored in Washington, where his call for a return to a free market in farm products is viewed as an invitation to chaos. Times are changing. Today, as the world's population threatens to outstrip its ability to pro duce food, many experts predict that Washington will ultimately have to stimulate rather than stifle the U.S. farmer's herculean productivity...
...Fascist. "I was born in July, the month Mussolini was born," boasts the bungling Blackshirt corporal (Ugo Tog-nazzi), eager for promotion. His father was a blacksmith like Mussolini's, he adds. And he once walked from Cremona to Rome to see il Duce, but missed...
...posthumous career began poorly enough. The corpse of Benito Mussolini hung heels-up alongside that of his mistress, Clara Petacci, like a pig outside a butcher shop. But last week, with the 20th anniversary of his death, the reputation of the Duce was undergoing a remarkable rehabilitation in Italy...
Died. Lieut. General Alfredo Guzzoni, 88, one of Italy's most decorated soldiers, who led Mussolini's troops to victory in Albania in 1939, directed Il Duce's back-door attack on France in 1940, ignominiously ended his career in Sicily in the 1943 Allied invasion; of bronchial complications; in Rome...
...tangle of plastic tubes.Like a battery, it was an entirely self-contained source of electricity, but it was far more than that. Esso's new fuel cell comes remarkably close to the achievement of a chemical engineer's dream: the use of a cheap fuel to pro duce practical amounts of electric cur rent without the aid of expensive engines or generators...