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...name in TIME'S May 30 issue, you had to read most of the way through a seven-column Foreign News story on Italy. At that point the story said: "The most disturbing economic fact of [Premier Alcide] de Gasperi's Italy is the almost hopeless poverty of such people as hunchbacked Lucia Ladanca, a Potenza housewife who lives with her tuberculous husband and eight-year-old son Bruno in a fetid tenement not far from well-stocked stores...
...what still had to be accomplished. "We are all products of a civilization," he said, "which emphasizes always black or white, hot or cold, day or night. Always it is either-or, where more-or-less is a bette explanation of the facts." The semantic outlook was "frankly hopeless." The world was in such a state that even the correct use of words could not cure it. "I can hardly understand," Korzybski said, "why we have not all been locked up as insane...
...locked up for the night and returned still undecided. Twice, the foreman reported that they did not think they could reach a verdict. Twice, Judge Kaufman sent them back to try again. Finally, 28 hours and 40 minutes after it had received the case, the jury announced a hopeless and final deadlock. One of Hiss's attorneys leaned over to ask a juror how they had balloted. The answer was a shock to him; eight to four for conviction...
...biggest mistake was his conviction about the outcome of World War II. In March 1940 he told a visitor: "I am as anti-Hitler as you are. But keep in mind that Germany will win the war." The King seemed right when the German army engulfed Belgium after 18 hopeless days of resistance. He refused to follow his government to exile in England. He surrendered his army. In both these actions he showed his stubborn will to rule rather than reign...
...time it rained in Rio in the past few months, deep puddles spread over the streets that crisscross the Praia do Flamengo along Guanabara Bay. City engineers wondered what had happened to the huge sewers beneath the Praia. Last week they found out. A handful of Rio's hopeless poor had blocked the street drains with boards and sheet metal, moved into the sewers and set up housekeeping...