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...TIME, June 9), got a political reprieve last week. The Communists' best opportunity to kill the new Cabinet seemed to be the scheduled dissolution of the Italian Constituent Assembly this month, which would have been followed by general elections in the fall. The Communists were sure they could lick De Gasperi, or at least deflect his energies from the desperate business of government. But last week the Assembly decided to junk the schedule and to postpone general elections for at least six months. This gave De Gasperi a vital chance to show Italians that he could run and rebuild...
...were right, but the South, who lost, were nicer. After that, nothing happened until . . . some people called doughboys went to Europe and won a war. On Dec. 7, 1941, the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor, and some people called G.I.s had to go out to the Pacific and lick the pants off them...
...Another victim was Michael Bakunin, an ardent Russian anarchist who threatened Marx's, control of the First International (founded in 1864 in London). Marx charged Bakunin with shady financial dealings and with being a Czarist agent. He could not make the charge stick, but Bakunin withdrew to lick his wounds...
...hero of The Big Sky is a raw Kentucky boy named Boone Caudill who goes West after he hits his Pap a lick with a piece of firewood. In St. Louis in 1830, he and his friend Jim Deakins join up for a keelboat expedition to the wild Blackfoot country at the headwaters of the Missouri. The cargo for trading is mostly whiskey; but their ace-in-the-hole, counted on to save the scalps of the whole company from Indians, is a twelve-year-old squaw named Teal Eye, daughter of a Blackfoot chief...
...first half of 1946, U.S.-flag lines were carrying 96% of transatlantic traffic. By last week, although overall traffic was up after the bad winter, the percentage was down to 79%. U.S. lines, Patterson felt, could not compete among themselves and with government-backed foreign lines as well. To lick this foreign type of monopoly, he would set up U.S. monopolies...