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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frenchmen examined their handiwork with a national headshake of disbelief. The support accorded the Communists and Poujadists put a third of Parliament (36% of the popular vote) into the hands of men publicly opposed to parliamentary democracy. The remainder, a workable majority if combined, was decisively split between forces of relatively similar philosophies but bitterly conflicting ambitions and allegiances...
...results were startling. With one exception, every major party that actually increased its share of the popular vote last week lost seats; and the one major party that dropped in percentage of popular votes gained seats. Example: ex-Premier Pinay's right-wing Independents and Peasants gained 2%, but lost 42 seats. The Communists lost nearly 1%, but won 53 new seats, representing almost exactly the seats they lost in 1951 when the center alliances scooped up all Assembly seats in any Department where they achieved a bare majority...
Still, there are a few gray spots left in the picture. Despite their 50 per cent representative gain, the Communists actually suffered a slight reduction in popular vote. Their phenomenal representative increase stems from the tangled electoral law rather than from popular strength. More important, after the first shock of the election results had worn off, Premier Faure proposed again yesterday the formation of a long-needed government of "national union," which would include all parties from Socialists to Conservatives...
...Italy the income-tax law is about as popular, and as enforceable, as Prohibition used to be in the U.S. Out of 47 million Italians, barely a million admit to any taxable income at all; of the million, only a handful admit to making more than 5,000,000 lire ($8,000) a year. In 1954 Gina Lollobrigida, one of Italy's most conspicuous assets, reported an income of but $4,800. The tax collectors' estimate of her income: $40,000. When Textile Manufacturer Gaetano Marzotto once owned to an income of $704,000, Rome...
...devotion to cooking and children (the Reagans have two). Nevertheless, she managed to sing 60 concerts a year across the U.S. This year she decided to cut down in favor of Manhattan appearances and guest shots. Her usual New York dates: three a year with the high-minded, highly popular Bach Aria Group, plus regular appearances on The Telephone Hour...