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...northern provinces, mobs of angry shopkeepers, peasants and craftsmen have launched a wave of attacks against about a score of Communist Party headquarters in the north. They are infuriated by the way the Communists have tried to seize national power despite their poor performance in the elections. In Rio Maior, furniture was tossed from the party headquarters' windows, doused with whiskey, and set aflame; at Vale de Cambra, a Molotov cocktail reduced the headquarters to a shambles of broken glass, ashes and charred posters. A Communist Party member in Estarreja who strayed too near a crowd trashing the headquarters...
...Taber. "People fear they will lose everything. 'All I want is a party that won't take away my car,' a cab driver in Porto told me. Most important, the people fear the Communists will grab their land. Thus it is scarcely surprising that in Rio Maior an artisan insisted that 'It's better to be a homosexual than a Communist.' " Until recently, the north regarded the military as heroes for triggering last year's revolution. Now an increasing number of the area's inhabitants mutter bitterly, as did a mechanic...
...modern industrial society and a free-enterprise system, the hard-core unemployed and unemployable will be around for a long time. The needed initiatives, which still require sound and sober study, include the guaranteed annual wage, the family allowance (which only the U.S. among the world's maior industrial democracies denies its citizens), and the negative income tax, which late last month was endorsed by a committee of industrialists including Ford's Arjay Miller and Xerox Chairman Joseph C. Wilson. The statistic that moves businessmen the most: from the age of 17, a male who lives to 57 can cost...
Died. Countess Santa Eulalia, 71, of Philadelphia, Indiana farmer's daughter, onetime (third) wife of the late John Batterson Stetson (hats), mother of U. S. Minister to Poland John Batterson Stetson Jr., relict of Portuguese Sculptor Alexis de Queiros Ribeiro de Sotto-Maior d'Almeida e Vasconcellos, Count Santa Eulalia; on her ranch near San Fernando, Calif...
...seem to recall, however, that while "major" or "maior" is the comparative, "magnus" is the positive, as "opus magnus" and not "opus maius." Unless there be some trick reference here to Maia, the goddess or month...
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