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...Soviet about-face was one more sign that Joseph Stalin's successors are capable of a surprising indecisiveness in foreign affairs. Just a month before, the Communists slammed the door on a four-power conference, then suddenly opened it again, clumsily recovering their grip on the doorknob...
...this respect the Hasty Pudding differs much from the Society as it existed in the 1890's, and indeed from the final club in most eras. It was in the '90s that nation-wide fraternities were losing their grip on College chapters. The local groups wanted more independence; the national organization, more control. Throughout the 1890s' clubs were detaching themselves from the fraternity system. Porcellian and A.D., which had broken off from the Harvard chapter of Alpha Delta Phi, were joined by other final clubs. Another fraternity effort to refound Alpha Delta Phi terminated in the Phli and finally...
...Athanas-sios Nicholaos determined to find some way out of the hellhole that the Reds had made of his small native land. "I would have killed myself rather than stay on in Albania," he said. But escape was not easy. Albania, according to Athanassios, is locked tight in the grip of 400 Russian civilians who completely control the government and the economy, and another 150 Russian officers who run the army and the police. The native population is for the most part sick with starvation, tuberculosis or plain terror. "It is almost impossible to avoid the security police...
...wanted jobs-made work if necessary-for all of Italy's 2,000,000 unemployed). He believes everyone is entitled to "a job, a house, and music." As Demo-Christian candidate for Florence's mayoralty two years ago, he blasted the Communists loose from a five-year grip on the city's administration. To poverty-ridden Florence he has brought low-cost housing, sanitary improvements, tree planting, free concerts. Florentines sometimes call him Il Santo (The Saint...
...bloomers and encase it in a tight suit. But Zehntbauer's suits have rarely gone to extremes; with hidden tricks and elastic yarn, they have been designed to help the female form as much as reveal it. By thus keeping his suits "conservative," he has a firm grip on an estimated 25% of the U.S. market...