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...Communist underground, and when the Germans took over Mussolini's crumbling state she was leader of a Communist cell in Leghorn. Her public career began at a Communist convention in Milan in 1948 when she walked on to the stage wearing red stockings, red jersey, a red ribbon in her hair, presented Communist Boss Togliatti with a bunch of red roses. The same year, sloe-eyed Laura stood for Parliament, won her seat by a sweeping majority. The offending speech was made during that election.. The long period elapsing before last week's trial was caused...
...gabardine suit and sky-blue jumper, a blue ribbon in her hair, Deputy Diaz last week listened to the charge. Said she, her long, black lashes fluttering: "When I spoke at Ortona I had not prepared any speech so I cannot remember the exact words . . . But what I am absolutely certain of is that I never mentioned hands or blood." Judge Pierantoni interrupted: "What I want to know is whether you mentioned hands and holy water." Deputy Diaz tapped her feet on the wooden floor. Said she: "Niente mani" (no hands). She went on: "I did mention holy water...
...yourself all worked up over medals. Everyone knows that a D.S.C. on a general is about the same as a Good Conduct ribbon...
...fault. Not any more than it was ours. It was an accident." Joe paused, and there was a note of bitterness in his voice. "And you're not going to reform him by sending him to jail for a long time, judge." Judge Leibowitz looked surprised. The blue-ribbon jury (all men) leaned forward...
Long Island residents prayed that a blue-ribbon investigating commission appointed by Governor Dewey (former Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, former State Supreme Court Justice Charles C. Lockwood and New York Parks Commissioner Robert Moses) would work some miracle with their transport problems. It was certainly high time...