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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them hope that a day would come when handsome, dark-eyed Mayor Pietro Nucera might forget himself and take them by violence. In the harsh code of justice on the slopes of Aspromonte, the Harsh Mountains in the toe of Italy's boot, the act of rape is often the precursor of enforced marriage, and the young mayor with his flashing eye and dark, curly hair had all the earmarks of a guappo-a dashing and romantic figure...
From socialism's earliest beginnings down through the years to the present, the Roman Catholic Church has branded the Marxist doctrine of socialism with its disapproval. That disapproval became such a political reflex that Catholic parties often seemed to be identified with opposition to social progress itself. The effort to correct this impression, plus the urgent menace of Communism, gave birth, in post-World War II in Europe, to the surprisingly successful Christian Democratic movements in Italy, Western Germany, Belgium and France...
Black oil, bubbling unexpectedly from the bowels of the earth, often begets friction and fire as well as power and progress. But in one small corner of northwest Borneo, thanks to the cooperation of a Britain grown wiser through past mistakes and an Oriental potentate with a social conscience, the discovery of oil has set a tiny nation of some of the world's most primitive people rocketing toward a prosperous future on smoothly lubricated wheels...
...news, gossip and pictures of TV that flood in from wire services and network publicity mills. CBS alone churns out 100,000 stories a year for 1,200 publications, and the network even plants finished feature articles in dailies and some magazines. In addition to Sunday supplements-often modeled on TV Guide, the most successful magazine (circ. 5,315,659) started since the war-most newspapers each day feature syndicated TV critics and program previews, give free rein to scores of local' TV columnists. Though many newspapers balked for years at carrying radio program listings without charge, the great...
Students who have employment ideas of their own are urged to consult the employment office about them. Often the office can offer special assistance and advice on the basis of past experience with certain firms and certain kinds of employment. Often the aids given can be as simple--and as important--as getting a students beyond a reception desk and arranging an appointment with the employment director of a business firm, officers of the employment office pointed...