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...ammunition works in Colleferro. south of Rome. Management feared Communist gains because 800 men had just been laid off. The Colleferro plant is Italy's biggest ammunition supplier; about 18% of its business is in offshore orders. In last week's election, the Communist vote (once a fungoid 68% ) dropped from 30% to 23.8%. At the same time, the vote for the rival non-Communist federation, the CISL, leaped from 53% to a very heartening 65.9%. Said one of Colleferro's directors: "To our notion, this election shows that the U.S. Embassy policy is right...
...meaning of a nation. The Lohrkes' regretful opinion: that England is at once dying, dead and badly in need of burial. They offer some somber and eloquent notes: on the deep feudal loyalty of the rural Englishman like that of a dog to his master; on the fungoid passivity of the English poor; on the drowning weight of the past, the atrophy of the sense of the future; on the "dead-end look" in the faces of the young; on the fagend of the industrial revolution, a people physically rated, even by their own experts, as a third-class...
Lobular pneumonia may be contracted through the air passages or by invasion through the blood system of many different kinds of germ?Micrococcus lanceolatus, Streptococcus pyogenes, Staphylococcus aureus, the tubercle bacillus, occasionally even the glanders bacillus, actinomyces (rayed fungoid), oidiomyces (egg-shaped fungoid...
...article is to demolish the `independent man,'" says the critic, "and, we infer, to disprove the existence at college to any great degree of that fungoid growth, toadyism." Nothing was further from our purpose than to disprove the existence of that "fungoid growth"; on the contrary, we regret that there is so much of it here; but we ventured to suggest that the epithet is often applied too indiscriminately. The misinterpretation of our meaning is so obvious that we do not see how it could be made accidentally...
...article is to demolish the "independent man," and, we infer, to disprove the existence at college to any great degree of that fungoid growth, toadyism...