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The latifondiari (.08% of landholders own 22% of Italy's arable land) are an anachronistic obstacle in democracy's advance. But they are only one aspect of land reform. Two years ago the late idealistic Prince Gioacchino Ruffo of Naples sold plots from his estate, at nominal prices...
Zillie protested that his only crime was his search for "peace," while the Labor Party was edging ever rightward toward Churchill's own "war policy." No Communist cardholder, Zillie has persistently buzzed along with the Moscow line. Last year, on the eve of the Italian elections, he and 21...
"As the descendant of a four-legged animal, man is constructed on the horizontal principle," Antipin had told a group of workers. "By becoming vertical, he is [like] a steam engine rolling along on its back wheels ... By using artificial meat grinders instead of his own teeth, he has weakened...
Veteran Stripper and sometime Litterateur Gypsy 'Rose Lee, currently touring the Midwest with her own girlie show in a carnival, discoursed on what it takes for success in stripteasing. "Brains! To go on year after year," said she, pointing to her forehead, "you got to have it up here...
Fanny Blankers-Koen, blonde Dutch housewife who has four Olympic gold medals and two kids of her own, stepped off the plane in New York, sought out a track where she could work the kinks out of her legs (she ran an all-star field into the ground at Los...