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...Fiat election, in which 49,600 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...
Appearing as a surprise lecturer in Richard Pipes' History 155 course, the man some may remember as the Socialist premier of Russia whom Lenin overthrew in October 1917, talked on Russia's pre-1917 parliament...
Felony to Advocate Overthrew...
...Hanukkah (literally, "dedication") commemorates the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem after Judah Maccabee and his brothers overthrew the Syrians, who were led by Antiochus (circa 165 B.C.). The legend goes that the sacred light (Menorah) burned for eight days with only a single day's supply of consecrated...
Born. To José ("Pepe") Figueres, 47, crusading liberal President of Costa Rica, who overthrew the country's dictatorial rightist-Communist coalition in 1948 and became the constitutionally elected President in July 1953, and blonde Karen Olsen Figueres, 24, formerly of New York City: their first child, a son. Name: José Maria Figueres. Weight...