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Organizer of the strike, 37-year-old Arturo Galavotti, is boss of Modena's labor and of its Communist Party. A townsman calls him "one of the harshest among the harsher members of the Communist Party." Galavotti has been disrupting Industrialist Orsi's factories with "hiccup strikes" (successive stoppages in one department after another). Last month Orsi closed the foundry, blamed rising production costs. At Galavotti's insistence, he offered to reopen this month. Orsi refused, however, to rehire 30 workers whom he called Communist troublemakers. Galavotti turned down the offer. Orsi stood pat, refused to postpone...
...Tight Spitter. Brazil's President lacks the easygoing gaiety of most of his countrymen. His short figure and outsize head have made sobersided Eurico Caspar Dutra a target for Rio cartoonists, who love to picture him as a sleepy owl. But even his harshest critics concede him a rocklike integrity, boundless courage, and an immobile sort of dignity...
...proposed, Bevin's announcement was a long first step in the right direction. It was bound to influence those who felt, like Dulles, that it was high time for Europe to make a start toward economic unity, at least. It was also the best possible answer to the harshest attack yet made...
...what he wanted and he was all for putting Harry Truman on the spot. Meanwhile, Democrats moved heaven & earth to have the bill split up, and thus give the President a chance to sit squarely on the fence. Truman could then court labor's support by killing the harshest proposals, try to win public support by approving the mildest...
These were probably the harshest words ever spoken of a dessert. But a lot of non-Americans (notably Britons) had long regarded the U.S. public's attitude toward The Bomb as callous to the point of idiocy. Although this interpretation did the U.S. an injustice, it had a certain justification. Some Americans, for instance, missed the point of Davies' tirade. Said L. K. Stephens, bakery supply salesman, who helped design and bake the cake: "We intended the cake as something...