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Even Eternal Rome was beginning to wonder if it was eternal enough to outlast the filibuster in Italy's parliament. For 37 days the Communists had hog-tied the Chamber of Deputies with their desperate war against Premier Alcide de Gasperi's electoral reform bill...
...fortnight ago in the "Hog Pen," Rio Grande's dilapidated gymnasium, Bevo ran wild against Ashland (Ky.) Junior College. During the closing five minutes of the game, Coach Oliver shouted instructions to his players, ordering them to foul their opponents deliberately so that Rio Grande could get the ball and "feed" Bevo. Bevo's final total: 116 points, an intercollegiate scoring record for one game...
...labor and people's organizations." A recent handbook for party workers on how to build up a new "united front" says: "We must be ready to join movements and actions initiated by others . . . We must not attempt to include our full program on every issue . . . We must not hog the leadership...
...tireless (though tactful) in charitable works. Everybody loved him, and he loved everybody-even the unworthy poor man. He gave the beggar a cottage on the castle grounds, and said nothing when his guest swore, drank, tracked mud on the floor, spit on the rugs, ate like a hog and threw a glass of water in the butler's face. Everybody told the rich man that he was a fool to waste his time and money on such an ingrate-he was beyond help...
Upward & Onward. At a special meeting last week, Cage plumped for still more expansion. Said he to his stockholders: "Folks, when you buy a hog, you don't starve him. You fatten him up. It's the same with this company. We've got to fatten this hog. We've got to fatten this company." The union capitalists promptly approved his plan to buy or set up union-owned insurance companies in most of the 48 states and to build a $1,000,000, five-story office building in downtown Dallas. Cage knows there...