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Plautus was the Neil Simon of Rome. When the tired businessman of the Eternal City trudged home from his officina on one of the seven hills in his sweat-stained toga and quaffed a quick goblet of Falernian, his wife probably said, "Carissime, in thealrum eamus...
...workers at Italy's biggest plant overthrew ten years of Communist leadership (TIME, April 11), started a chain reaction. In the industrial north, the anti-Communist rebellion swept through plant after plant, winning elections outright in some, scoring big gains in others. At Milan's Officina Meccànica (truck bodies), the Communist vote plummeted from a secure 80% last year to a minority 37%. Most significant yet was last week's vote at the Falck steel works in Sesto San Giovanni, an industrial suburb of Milan known as Italy's Little Stalingrad...
Professor A. G. Solalinde of Madrid will deliver a lecture in Spanish at 8 o'clock in Emerson Hall on February 10. His subject is "Pio Baroja, Novelista", Professor Salalinde is secretary of the Officina de Relaciones Culturales under the state department of Spain and is associated with the Centro de Estudios Historicos of Madrid...
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