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...Force of Rebellion. At the first secret ballot, Fanfani got a rude shock. There were 382 Christian Democrats on hand. But Merzagora got only 228 votes. There were 130 votes for Einaudi, 30 votes for Gronchi. Frantically, during the long Italian lunch hour, Fanfani scurried from one party member to another, cracking the whip. But on the second ballot Merzagora not only did not gain, but lost a few votes. What was worse, the conservative faction within the Christian Democrats, which includes former Premier Giuseppe Pella, began voting for Left-Winger Gronchi. This was their revenge against Party Secretary Fanfani...
...topflight U.S. military analyst, the New York Times's Hanson W. Baldwin usually gets a cordial welcome at the Pentagon. But last week he got a rude surprise. When he tried to make appointments for talks with General Matthew Ridgway, Admiral Robert B. Carney, Lieut. General James Gavin and other high brass, he was turned down cold. Other Pentagon newsmen had similar experiences. An Army, Navy, Air Force Journal staffer asked for obituary material on a Marine brigadier general, did not get it until the handout was marked "reviewed and cleared" by a Navy captain...
Cost-cutting also ended the motor-man-conductor teams on streetcars, pushed onto the busy bus driver the added chores of change-making, direction-giving, etc. Nerves frayed by traffic, many drivers became rude and disagreeable, thereby turned still more customers away. Said the Houston Post: "Management and drivers . . . seem to be taking turnabout tapping nails into the coffin...
...heritage: "We are a country of principles, an old country, a country built village by village. Viet Nam is a solid thing . . ." And he is reluctant to change it, but: "Sometimes I think we Asians are too reserved, talk too much by nuance. We ought to learn to be rude in our talk like the Americans, and get things done." Diem rarely speaks harshly of fellow Vietnamese who are Communists, because he hopes to convert them; he intends to oppose the twisted dialectic of Ho Chi Minh with the lotus of morality. Yet he recognizes that Communists are not creatures...
...cooings, cluckings, crises and crumpets, 2) the adolescent caterpillar sprouting the butterfly wings of maturity, 3) the Panlike pipings of Bohemia competing with the dull drill calls of middle-class life. Novelist Hallinan's Pan is a fat, wheezing, believable genius named Jubial Kerr who huffs and puffs rude reality into Rough Winds of May. To the world at large, he is J. K., England's greatest painter. To the Kerr household, he is Fatuncle, a lifelong, irresponsible nuisance who only comes around to cadge money and food. When his 16-year-old niece Celia goes to pose...