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That strategy proved to be effective -but only to a point. The Communists gained votes in all 20 Italian regions and came close to winning control of Rome's municipal government. In Parliament, the P.C.I. gained 48 additional Chamber of Deputies seats, for a total of 227 (out of 630). Berlinguer, running for three different seats, won them all, and in Rome gained the election's largest total of preferential votes (279,158). In the Senate, the Communists won 22 more seats, for a total of 116 (out of 315). The Christian Democrats, however, gathered 14.2 million votes...
Still, the opposition is unlikely to stop the war or even slow it so long as King George and his majority in Parliament support it. The King directs the government on essential matters of policy, and he is more belligerent even than most of his ministers. Through his ability to grant sinecures, offer jobs and give outright cash bribes-not to mention his unquestioned power to appoint new members to the House of Lords -George has firm control of at least a third of the members of both houses, the "King's Friends," while another third can almost always...
...Anne's death, Parliament awarded the Crown to the nearest Protestant heir, James I's great-grandson George, Elector of Hannover, and great-grandfather of the present King...
...until the eighth man, with his finger in the seventh basin, touches a wire to the back of the fish, a ray. Then, although none of the men is touching the fish or any other person, all of them "felt a commotion." So reports John Walsh, a Member of Parliament and a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. The experiment, adds Walsh, opens "a large field for inquiry, both to the electrician in his walk of physics, and to all who consider the animal oeconomy...
...time when the British Empire is being rent asunder, Edward Gibbon has produced an eloquent and authoritative account of the ruin of Imperial Rome. This is somewhat surprising, since Gibbon, 39, an inconspicuous Member of Parliament, has previously written only some brief essays and two minor volumes of literary criticism. Yet his new work is not mere history but high tragedy, as the course of Rome's decay is hurried forward by fools and villains, and only briefly impeded by the strivings of worthy...