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Italians call him the man who built modern Rome. Stocky, stingy and strongwilled, Romolo Vaselli, 75, has turned the Eternal City from a decaying, pest-ridden capital of 500,000 into a marble and concrete metropolis with a population (1,800,000) surpassing that of Augustus' golden days. He has also made himself, as city tax records certify, the richest Roman of them all, worth some 100 billion lire ($160 million...
...Hungarian troops certainly are not the only ones around the city. The Soviets are still there. The invaders' tanks and heavily armed soldiers no longer man the streets and bridges. They are camped now in the hills of Buda and not far from the American legation in Pest. Only a few are seen on the streets. But their presence is felt-most directly by arrests. More than 100,000 people are estimated to have been arrested since November. The visitor finds that old friends are simply not around any more, and it is unwise to ask about them except...
Trap Plants. The witchweed-infested area is now quarantined, and strict measures are taken to keep the pest from spreading. The scientists are none too hopeful. Witchweed seeds are invisible when mixed with soil, and they can be carried by farmers' boots, auto tires, shipments of farm products or almost anything else that moves. Experts shudder to think what would happen if a hurricane were to pick up the seeds and scatter them like smoke. The parasite can probably thrive throughout the South, from Virginia to eastern Texas. It can live on wild grasses, including the common crabgrass...
...South, long inured to red bugs, screwworms, rattlesnakes, alligators and other varmints, irritably recognized last week that it had a new pest on its hands: the fire...
Remembering the World War II rape of Budapest by Red army soldiers, Hungarian women obliged to go out seeking food for their families disguised themselves as old hags. On one street in Pest lay the nude, violated body of a pregnant woman. The Soviet commander brought in a field gendarmerie called "R troops." The R men set up house guards, block inspectors and kangaroo courts empowered to execute within 24 hours any Hungarian found guilty of "murder, arson, looting," or concealing arms. The orders were signed by a Major General Grubennyik...