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...that once "held the gorgeous East in fee," is now down to glass blowing, lacemaking, and putting up tourists. As its ancient islands and handsome buildings sink ever deeper into the waters of the lagoon, Venetians and their businesses have been migrating to the booming towns of Mestre and Porto Marghera on the mainland near by, while the population of Venice itself has dwindled to about the same number of citizens (170,000) as it held in 1500. To halt their city's decline, Venetian "progressives" propose to build a "little Manhattan" on an artificial island at the western...
...Roger Vailland. In the Italian town of Porto Manacore, the main sports seem to be sex and formalized verbal abuse. Author Vailland won France's Prix Goncourt with this slick, cynical and true-ringing novel of small-town hunger-for women, for power, for land and money...
What the tourists see in the south Italian fishing town of Porto Manacore is fine Adriatic beaches, offshore islands ideal for skin diving and a somnolent landscape of ripening fruit orchards. French Novelist Roger Vailland looks around more sharply, and what he sees is far less pretty In The Law (a Book of the Month Club selection and 1957 winner of France's famed Prix Goncourt), he coolly examines a hand-picked cast of Manacoreans and discovers without surprise that their lives are governed by poverty, cynicism and naked power. A sometime Communist Author Vailland searches out what suits...
After that, powerful army units fanned through the city to squelch further outbreaks. But in Porto Alegre, capital of Vargas' home state of Rio Grande do Sul, mobs fired the U.S. consulate and offices of two U.S. firms. Six died and more than a hundred rioters were wounded as troops dispersed them with gunfire. In Sao Paulo, police guns halted attacks on two U.S. company offices, wounding...
...press attacking them steadily, and with his sanitary inspectors likely to drop in any time to assess heavy fines for a loose roof tile or a leaky pipe, the U.S. companies can not be sure what their eventual fate may be. This week representatives of West Indies and South Porto Rico are scheduled to fly from New York for a meeting at which they hope to find out what the Benefactor really wants-and why the boss so often defended as friendly to business has been giving business the business...