Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good people of San Marino made the mistake of electing a Communist and left-wing Socialist majority to their local Parliament, the Grand Council. Heady with power, the nation's new rulers took over with an impressive program of local improvements, including nationalization of the nation's only two factories, which both manufacture ceramic souvenirs for the tourist trade. But the new deal never quite came off. One by one the Red faithful left the fold. Three weeks ago San Marino's Demo-Christian minority leader suddenly woke up to the fact that his party now commanded...
Damp Spirits. As soon as the Communists heard the news, they ringed the Public Palace on the hilltop with a guard of local comrades armed with weapons cached away since war's end. While Italy's press screamed of "bloody civil war" in the tiny contained nation, San Marino's own partisans were subdued by a drizzling rain. At one point the Reds on the hill organized a sortie against their adversaries, but what with the mud and all, gave up after firing a single wild shot. The Italian government helpfully recognized the anti-Communist government, then...
...trains run on time, nightclubs have reopened, and little boys and girls scamper along the cobbled banks of the Danube. Just now, the country swarms with Austrian and German hunters who pay up to $1,200 for the privilege of shooting at the local stags. But at the airport Hungarian troops are all over the place. And Hungarian troops certainly are not the only ones around the city. The Soviets are still there. The invaders' tanks and heavily armed soldiers no longer man the streets and bridges. They are camped now in the hills of Buda...
Three years ago Montreal's ex-Mayor Camillien Houde, who had just retired after running the city with all the uproar, fun and profit of a bingo game, was asked by a local matron what he thought of the new mayor, a prim, plain lawyer named Jean Drapeau. Replied Houde: "He is a little man, madame, a little man." But last week, with a new election three weeks off, Politician Houde had changed his mind. Just as a boom got rolling to return him as mayor of Canada's biggest city (and the second largest French-speaking city...
...them already suspiciously enlarged) were removed. In the second stage of the operation, after slitting the lip and cheek wide open, the surgeon removed the whole upper jaw and palate on the right side, which threw the nasal cavity and mouth into one. "These frightful operations were performed under local anesthesia...