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...crucial Parliament votes of three splinter parties of the democratic center. Most essential to Scelba's success, and therefore the hardest bargainer, was Giuseppe Saragat, the wavery leader of the Social Democrats. When Pietro Nenni sold out Italian Socialism to the Communists in 1947, Saragat founded a rump party of anti-Communist Socialists. Though his party's strength was cut in half at last summer's elections, Saragat was now in the position of being able to make or break Premiers. For his 19 votes in the Chamber, Saragat demanded and got of Scelba four ministries...
...stockholders, many of whom had traveled hundreds of miles to attend the meeting, were in no mood to call it quits, decided to hold their own rump session. As their chairman they elected Stockholder Gilbert, and named a committee of eight to meet with the management and talk over its plans. Meanwhile, American Woolen management, claiming proxies for 55-57% °f the stock, sniffed at Textron's plan, prepared to put through its own proposals as soon as the court order was dismissed...
Firebrand No. 1, Nye Bevan himself, was down with flu and reportedly deeply depressed. Influential Bevanite M.P.s, notably Dick Grossman and Desmond Donnelly, are quietly counseling Nye to let the rebel rump die and return to party regularity. The new Bevanite line: "We have accomplished much. Our job must now be to consolidate the party...
Along with the characteristics considered desirable (high rump and no tail) go various congential weaknesses. When two Manx cats are mated, their kittens are apt to turn out feeble. After the fourth generation, most kittens are born dead. Thus, the usual methods of multiplying and stabilizing a special breed of cats are ruled...
...with individual justice. They insist that a tenured professor who uses the Fifth Amendment bears "a heavy burden of proof" of his fitness to keep teaching, but they at least give him a chance to defend his competence before a non-political university body. They even mention standards such rump courts can judge by. Yet strangely enough, when it comes to admitted Communist Party teacher's, the AAU forgets its standards and slaps on the blanket...