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...Patchwork of Cliques. For a new leader, the country could hardly look beyond De Gasperi's own Christian Democrats, who hold 40% of the Parliament, against 35% for the Reds and Red Socialists, 13% for the Monarchists and neoFascists. But without a shrewd bargainer and clever parliamentarian like De Gasperi to coalesce them, the Christian Democrats are not so much a single team as a patchwork of conflicting blocs and cliques which stretch from modified socialism to near monarchism. As his first choice for new Premier, President Einaudi reached to the party's right wing and picked Attilio...
...years ago, in a hopeful effort to modernize Brazil's patchwork economy, the U.S. and Brazil set up a joint commission in Rio to pass on rail, electric power, and other projects suitable for development loans. In the spacious cordiality of the hour, U.S. officials predicted that the joint commission's work would bring Brazil from $350 to $500 million in loans from the U.S. Export-Import Bank and the World Bank. Last week, with only $122 million in such loans granted, the U.S. prepared to wind up the commission and send its members home...
Confusion & Patchwork. As for the approved schools, they are still floundering in confusion: they have never even decided what their applicants should know. "Prelegal and legal education are in fact divorced from each other . . . There is no attempt at synthesis . . . Anyone familiar with the huge offerings of fragmentized courses of a university must realize that the student is likely to come through this ordeal with an education that is little more than a patchwork...
...General lost his nerve--"Eisenhower, the crusader, developed into Eisenhower the patchwork politician, with all the parts glued together by his obvious sincerity and humanity...
...made fat, sensational headlines (see PRESS). Some dispatches made it appear as if the slow-moving old Hellcats were "guided missiles" (because they were un-piloted); that the age of "pushbutton war" had been ushered in. This jubilation was wildly off the mark. The Boxer experiments were, actually, a patchwork of relatively old techniques, far behind the modern technology of real guided missiles (rocket-or jet-propelled and guided by radar). Ten years ago, in World War II, the Navy itself had successfully used a pilotless plane, controlled by radio and aimed by television, in simulated attacks on a destroyer...