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Along the Grand Canal in Venice, a huge, brightly lit red-and-white shield of the Christian Democratic Party gleams in the night; sprouting from Rome's Janiculum Hill, overlooking the Vatican, is the red-white-green flame of the tiny, powerless Fascists. From Messina to Milan last week, wide piazzas and narrow alleyways sprouted in riotous campaign colors, and echoed with the loudspeaker slogans of scudding little Fiat 600s, as Italy's 34,-300,000 voters prepared to go to the polls for the first national election in five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Test for the Aperfura | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

Short weeks before, the skinny, crew-cut teen-ager seemed beyond medical help. Fred Wallace was literally bleeding to death. And the doctors at Baylor University Medical Center seemed powerless to help. They gave heroic round-the-clock care, a record number of transfusions (932 pints of blood and plasma), and still Fred's life dripped steadily away. Then, suddenly, he got better. As he hobbled out of the hospital on his crutches last week and headed for his home in Muskogee, Okla., a team of dedicated physicians and surgeons was still wondering how an ordinary case of hemophilia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hematology: What Stopped the Bleeding? | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

Harvard reestablished its claim to the Eastern baseball championship Saturday with a surprising 12-1 conquest of Navy at Annapolis. Powerless against the delivery of Paul Del Rossi and weak in pitching, the Midshipmen did not resemble the potnant favorites they are supposed...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Del Rossi Pitches Team To 12-1 Win Over Navy | 4/15/1963 | See Source »

...year the Sultan's government spent only $50,000 on drugs and medicine for its people, while laying out $47,000 for electrical illumination on the Sultan's birth day; action on requests to the government usually took from six months to three years. The dominant but powerless People's Party was also dead-set against Malaysia; the party's erratic, goateed, onetime veterinarian leader, Sheik A. M. Azahari, 34, wanted instead to align Brunei, Sarawak and North Borneo into a single independent state-with himself as its leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Malaysia: The Man Who | 4/12/1963 | See Source »

...Crimson's Paul Del Rossi, who went nine innings to collect his third win of the year without a defeat, shared the blame. Studying his batters no less carefully than Nogelo, the Harvard ace had more difficulty than usual against what were supposed to be powerless opponents. Del Rossi yielded eight hits, twice the total he permitted in his first two contests this year...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Crimson Nine Defeats Tufts, 5-2 With Three Run Rally in Eighth | 4/10/1963 | See Source »

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