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Last week in Manhattan, at a forum sponsored by the Trade & Industry Law Institute, some topflight economists and lawyers tried to chart a way for the U.S. around the dilemma of bigness. Gaunt, grey Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, ex-chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, led off with an attack against the current policy of the Truman Administration's trustbusters. Their heavy emphasis on the prosecution of big companies, said he, should be abandoned...
...unemployed workman gets a job which requires a bicycle. He pawns the family bedsheets to get his out of hock, loses it to a thief, and fails in a forlorn chase to get it back. For the central role, Director Vittorio (Shoeshine) De Sica hired a real workman: gaunt, sad-eyed Lamberto Maggiorani, 39, whose performance won international praise...
...brown-mustached U.S. prosecutor Tom Murphy made his second bid to send Alger Hiss off to prison for perjury, spectators had covertly begun eying the gaunt, calm defendant for signs of reaction. It became steadily more obvious that the Government's case was tighter, more dramatically presented and more damaging than it had been in the first trial. But by last week in Manhattan's federal court it was just as obvious that Hiss's defense had improved as well...
Close Call. For gaunt, 65-year-old Bustamante, the election was another close call in a public life that has been a succession of escapes and escapades. Since he rose to power in Jamaica as a spellbinding union boss (he is president "for life" of the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union) he has been interned for sedition, charged with manslaughter (later acquitted) and engaged in any number of lesser scrapes with Jamaica's British rulers...
This year, as the autumn sowing season arrived, Melissa's gaunt people turned hungry eyes on one of Berlingieri's idle hilltops. One foggy morning 300 of them went up with axes and picks. The carabinieri soon arrived. In the battle that followed, three of the squatters were killed, several others wounded. The police charged that the squatters started the fight, with gunfire and hand grenades; two carabinieri were seriously wounded. The carabinieri blamed the Communists, and the Communists, eager to make political capital from the peasants' discontent, promptly replied that all the Melissa casualties were indeed...