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Shaky Church. In Dozza's pre-election pamphlet, What We Have Done, the word Communist appears only once in 63 pages. Dozza and his comrades are called the Gruppo Due Torri (the Two Towers Group), a reference to the pair of medieval leaning towers in the city's center which are the symbol of Bologna. Red election posters in the parks and piazzas are similarly bare of the hammer and sickle, and read: VOTA DUE TORRI...
...more literally in the family way than the family had in mind. It was, in fact, the regular, annual arrival of 150 or so au pairs upon the doorstep of Britain's National Council for Unmarried Mothers that recently got the Home Office to issue a free pamphlet offering concisely stated advice in seven different languages. Now the generally accepted last word on the subject, a sort of Dr. Spock for au pair parents and charges, the text decreed that a girl should be given a separate bedroom and a place at the family table, that she should work...
...usual, it all started with a prickly rebel. He is Keshav Singh, 40, socialist author of a pamphlet that flatly charged an Uttar Pradesh state legislator with being a crook. Haled before the indignant legislature, Singh proudly turned his back and refused even to give his name. Indignant at such irreverence, the legislature ordered Singh locked up in the Lucknow jail for seven days. He countered by getting two judges of Uttar Pradesh's highest court to spring him on bail pending his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The legislature countered by rearresting Singh-and holding...
...held up a pamphlet produced by the District of Columbia G.O.P. committee, which quoted Goldwater (accurately) as having said: "I believe it is both wise and just for Negro children to attend the same schools as whites and that to deny them this opportunity carries with it strong implications of inferiority." Now, Hubert cried: "I'm not much for a fellow who's for civil rights in the District of Columbia and whistles Dixie with you . . . The views I state in Georgia are the same views I state in Minnesota. I will not speak out of both sides...
...have assumed that the caucus' unwillingness to compromise proved that the Party couldn't fathom the Great American Art of Politics. Perhaps this is a valid indictment, but it ignores the fact that the Party was trying to play not American politics, but Mississippi politics. And, as every FDP pamphlet explains, "Mississippi is like no where else on earth...