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...Power Grab. "I can understand why people up to now lack confidence," Economics Minister Vasco Vieira de Almeida told TIME Correspondent George Taber. "It is up to the government to create it." Creativity, however, is not exactly helped by the patchwork makeup of the 15-member Cabinet, which includes Socialists and Communists as well as nonpolitical technocrats, centrists and a lieutenant colonel. Last week, typically, the Cabinet set aside three days to discuss a series of sweeping economic decisions; the meeting broke up in disarray after the first day, and further discussion was postponed for a week...
...masses, to remind the army that its loyalty should be to him and not to the revolutionary captains who led the coup, and to warn the anarchic left that he will use force if necessary to keep order. Some military officers are unhappy about Spinola's blatant power grab, but there is little that they can do about it, at least for the moment. Three weeks ago, when leaders of the Armed Forces Movement protested, the President threatened to resign unless they promised to support him. The captains backed down and gave him an overwhelming vote of confidence...
...omnicompetent and a cheerful presence in a gloomy house. Dad is soon entertaining honorable thoughts of a second marriage while his middle son Nino (Alessandro Momo) is harboring impure thoughts and, what is worse, putting them into action. Basically goodhearted and rather innocent, Angela mistakes his occasional attempts to grab her for youthful high spirits and does not repulse them firmly enough. They form the basis for blackmail in which she is forced to cater humiliatingly to his voyeuristic whims. In true porn-movie style, these proceed up the scale from the mild to the wild, and since Antonelli...
Leone, 1973-74 captain of the Harvard thinclads, covered the distance in 48.1 seconds, as a loose contingent of Harvard trackmen managed to grab second place in the meet...
...this case it was a lucky break, as the Miami fielder was able to make a diving grab of LaCivita's hot drive...