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...Caretaker. Last August Giuseppe Pella got power chiefly because he promised not to exert it. He is a Christian Democrat, and he served for five years in De Gasperi's government as the brilliantly successful keeper of the budget. But Giuseppe Pella had no political organization of his own, no party faction behind him. The party did not choose him to be Premier. It was not even consulted in advance. Pella's old friend and mentor, President Luigi Einaudi, tapped Pella because he merely wanted someone to govern as a caretaker while the Christian Democrats settled among themselves...
Last week they came-Oscar Sheka, Keeper of the Sacred Masks, and Leo Quetawke, Head Councilman in charge of Law and Order. They were dressed in windbreakers and dark trousers and their seamed, impassive faces were shaded by the black ten-gallon hats that the Indians of the southwest love to wear. At the railroad station they met another Zuñi and brought him along. He was Enos Coonsis, a 19-year-old soldier in the field artillery at nearby Camp Carson. Like most .Zuñis, Enos had gone to church while he was at school, but like...
High among the nonfiction bestsellers were books of personal uplift and personal adventure, advice on golf, a couple of cartoon collections, Dr. Kinsey on the human female, and the life story of an unabashed bordello keeper who could probably tell Kinsey a thing or two, Polly Adler's A House Is Not a Home...
Following Reynolds will be Keyes D. Metcalf, director of Widener Library, who will bear the Charter, the Seal, and the Record Books. The "Library Keeper" performed this same function...
Leverett's inauguration was carefully described in his diary. After the library keeper and college butler had laid the symbols of office on a table in College Hall, the Governor of the colony handed them to the new president. In later years, the state governor has performed the duty, and since 1865, the President of the Board of Overseers has always given the relics to the president...