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...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...
University Provost Charles Noyes ordered America the Beautiful removed, along with five other paintings equally riotous in local color. Then an Ole Miss law student, Charles G. Blackwell, who belongs to three Citizens Councils and has an eye on a Democratic nomination for the state legislature, brought charges against Kerciu-desecration of the Confederate flag by "obscene and indescent [as the charge spelled it] words and phrases." Arrested by Oxford police, Kerciu posted a $500 bond, came out of jail to find that his associates on the traditionally timid Ole Miss faculty had rallied behind him and are planning...
...chuckle anthology is not quite the "riotous collection of political pleasantry" Cameo claims, but some of the bands are pretty skillful. Former Little Rock Congressman and now Special Assistant to the President Brooks Hays is given the largest play, and in general he is worth it. Hay's humor is not the subtle jab of Adlai Stevenson; rather it is folksy, obvious, and almost slapstick. If Hays' remarks were printed they would come off dreadfully, but his quips gain life when told with the soft drawl of the southerner...
...visitors, who showed him something. All three started out the door together, but then Argoud tried to pull away. The other two grabbed him, hauled him out to the street, knocked him down, threw him into an auto and drove away. At the height of Munich's riotous pre-Lenten celebrations, any policeman might have shrugged it off as just another Fasching brawl...
Like Germany's riotous Patching festival, Hungary's Fasching was traditionally a time to blow off steam before the onset of Lent's rigors. It was banned by Hungary's Red rulers. But now, with their tolerance, Farsang (pronounced for-shong), is making a comeback-not so much as a pre-Lenten spree as a chance to escape the austerity of everyday life under Communism. Explained one blonde merrymaker: "We celebrate from the morning after New Year's right through Lent, and on to Easter...