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...country. Dressed in a spotless white uniform, with a black petji set jauntily on his head, Sukarno stood under a brown awning on the columned porch of his Freedom Palace and, "in the name of the one and only God." announced the revival of the 1945 revolutionary constitution. His fiat swept out of office the 17th government to rule Indonesia in 14 years, dissolved the Constituent Assembly, emasculated some 40-odd political parties and caused the resignation of the 27-man Cabinet of his loyal ally, Premier Djuanda...
...days beforehand, news stories went round the world direly reporting that nothing less than freedom itself was at stake in Sicily. And as the time came for Sicilians to elect a new regional assembly, Christian Democratic orators by the Fiat-ful raced about the island tirelessly echoing the warning of Italy's Premier Antonio Segni: "We must be on our guard if we are not to awaken in the bear hug of Communism...
Administrative fiat also forced the curtailment of another more recent Harvard institution. The Class of '59 was the last class to have the pleasure of having a "Miss Radcliffe." After Miss Radcliffe '59 had been chosen, the Radcliffe Administration ruled that Radcliffe girls would no longer be allowed to participate in the event. Apparently, involvement in a college-wide beauty contest had not been beneficial to the later academic standing of several of the girls selected...
Died. Mario de Bernardi, 65, Italian aviator who, in a little red Macchi-Fiat seaplane, won the Schneider Cup in 1926, breaking Lieut. Jimmy Doolittle's record with an average 246 m.p.h.; of a heart attack; in Rome. Once known in the U.S. as the "Flying Fascist," De Bernardi was a World War I ace (nine enemy planes), flew experimental jets as early as 1940, in recent years put all his savings into the development of a two-cylinder, 40-h.p. single-seater not much bigger than the dragonfly for which it was named. Last week De Bernardi heard...
Best of Two Worlds. Profiting by this change, foreign manufacturers have poured into the U.S. market. West Germany led with the Volkswagen (1958 sales: 102,035), France sent the Renault (47,567), Italy the Fiat (23,000), Britain the Hillman (18,663). Japan has entered the U.S. market with its Toyopet, Sweden with its Volvo. Italy has just brought out a sleek new Fiat, and the Dutch announced only last week that they will soon bring their brand-new Daf into the U.S. market. Even the babies of the import family, e.g., West Germany's tiny Isetta and Goggomobile...