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Some of Scelba's political colleagues, who accuse him of strong-arm methods, were not reassured by his non-Fascist pledge. Back in Rome after his Emilian foray, Scelba faced Giuseppe Saragat, mild, middle-of-the-road Socialist leader, and two of his followers who hold posts in the cabinet. Saragat accused Scelba of trying to give "a sop to Fascism." Scelba took three days to soothe Saragat. Then Randolfo Pacciardi, Italy's able Defense Minister, made difficulties: he wanted Italy's regular armed forces strengthened before any volunteer forces were launched. Scelba brought him around...
...A.M.A.'s high command rehired the high-powered publicity firm of Whitaker & Baxter, which last year led the A.M.A.'s foray into national politics. It also steamrollered into silence a scattering of delegates who favored the A.M.A.'s end (defeating federal health insurance), but not its ballyhooing means...
When a Christian does battle with Freud, it is no news. But a foray against Freud just published in the U.S. by British Clergyman Benjamin Gilbert Sanders, Christianity After Freud (Macmillan; $1.75), may raise some startled eyebrows among both psychoanalysts and Christians. For Author Sanders picks Freud's own weapons to defend Christianity...
...dared P.N.P. leader Manley to a ?5,000 bet on the election outcome. Manley haughtily brushed off the wager as "racecourse conduct" but the flamboyant challenge helped spread the word that Busta himself had not given up hope. In the last stage of the campaign, he made a dashing foray into Kingston. "The P.N.P. say I have run away," he cried. "Here...
Armed with years of reading and research, Williams determined to refight the war from the opening shots at Fort Sumter. The result is no amateur's awkward foray. The first two volumes of Lincoln Finds a General (two more to come) already look like the soundest military history of the North yet written...