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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Italy. In the home of the largest Communist Party outside the Iron Curtain, 3,000 party members in the deep Red city of Rovigo (pop. 14,600) alone reportedly turned in their membership cards last week. Defections were reported all over the country. Pietro Nenni, leader of Italy's fellow traveling Socialists, announced: "For the first time in many years there is deep disagreement between us and the Communists." Connoisseurs of his serpentine mind were divided over whether he was capable of honest feeling about suffering anywhere, or just trying to save his own hide in the Communist wreckage...
...MERGER of Long-Bell lumber empire with huge International Paper Co. is being challenged by Federal Trade Commission. FTC complains International is already world's biggest papermaker (1955 sales: almost $800 million), would lessen competition, tend to monopoly in Western states by adding Long-Bell, which is second largest lumber producer in Pacific-Northwest, one of top U.S. plywood producers. But deal, with International paying $117 million in stock for Long-Bell, can be halted only if FTC hearing next February produces stop order...
Three of Brown's four largest ground gainers have been out of action the last two weeks and unable even to scrimmage this week. Kelley said that the lack of scrimmage had made the Bruin attack rusty...
President Pusey has appointed a Committee for Harvard College to organize and direct the largest fund-raising drive in educational history, announced two weeks...
...orders overwhelmed the grain pits, turned them into a bedlam as traders bawled bids and offers. Wheat, corn. rye. cotton, soybeans, lard-just about everything except onions-soared on the prospects of war shortages, sent the Dow-Jones Commodity Futures Index up 1.66 points to 165.79 for the largest one-day advance in 2½ months...