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Election day was seven weeks off, but on the campaign's first Sunday, Italians from the shore of Como to the slums of Palermo gathered at a record 2,300 political rallies. Young volunteers rushed about with paintbrushes, paste pots and bills, to plaster Italy's piazze and palazzi, walls and ruins with the confusingly mixed-up slogans and emblems of about 18 different political parties. (Example: one party flaunted the rising sun, a second a full sun, a third the setting sun; at least three small parties encroached on the Communists' hammer & sickle.) There were some...
...Klein soon noticed that one Minneapolis customer was sending in big orders for poster paint in tiny bottles. "Being of an inquisitive nature." he went to Minneapolis and found that the paint was going into paint-it-yourself kits containing unpainted plaster figurines. Before long, Klein was making and selling so many similar sets to Woolworth and Kresge that he was the "world's biggest manufacturer of figurine kits...
...long stretches, Novelist Karmel offers a meticulous description of the intrigue that is almost inevitable among patients who are not acutely ill yet must stay in bed month after month. Stephania's willfulness, her almost ferocious desire to bear the agonies of a plaster cast that may reshape her grotesque body, seem offensive to the other patients. But gradually they gain some of her hunger to become normal again, while she learns to value their simple, unheroic humanity. Under Stephania's prodding, little Thura begins to move her paralyzed fingers, while Fröken Nilsson, outraged at being...
Shortage of office space became an increasingly vexing problem. The Los Angeles business staff moved into a new building only a few hours before plaster in their vacated offices was shaken loose by a mild earthquake. And (as I wrote you three weeks ago) TIME's London staff moved into their new building before the year was over. TIME opened its 14th and 15th overseas bureaus in Madrid and Singapore...
...room directly above. Once during a three-day absence Smith left his radio blaring away and the police were called in. Smith said it was an oversight. For another two years the battle of bedlam went on. Other neighbors began to complain. One threatened to beat up Smith. After plaster-shivering crashes began causing their small daughter to have vomiting fits, the Masons decided to sue for damages...