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...bantamweight championship of the world. Early in the fight, a right cross broke Chamroen's nose and splattered blood all over the ring; for 15 rounds both men whaled away at each other furiously. Chamroen was beaten on points. By western standards it was a lively scrap, but to Thais it looked like a mild family argument...
Hottest Thing in France. Italian-born Motorman Pigozzi, 56, has had a supercharged rise in the French auto business. He left the scrap business in 1926 to become the French distributor of Italy's Fiat cars. When he ran into import and tariff troubles, he took over a small assembly plant in France. In 1934, after assembling 32,000 Fiats, he bought out a bankrupt auto factory near Paris for $300,000 and organized Simca (Sociéte Industrielle de Mécanique et Carrosserie Automobile). Gradually he loosened his ties with Fiat, and today Simca, while it still...
...wanted the threat defined as "Communist aggression" because it did not want to find itself pledged to stop some other kind of aggression (e.g., an India-Pakistan scrap). The British wanted to take out "Communist" on the grounds that unless this were done, none of the neutralist powers could ever be persuaded to join the alliance...
...their own secure refuge, a place to pray." Duilio Marcante told some of his friends, and the idea raced through Genoa and far beyond. Hundreds of Italian athletes sent in bronze and copper trophies to be melted down for the statue. The Italian navy and merchant marine offered bronze scrap from Italian ships sunk in World War II, and from one poor woman came a single copper coin. Sculptor Guido Galletti, 61, labored for nearly a year to model and cast a figure eight feet tall to stand on a pedestal ten feet high...
...brief vacation at a La Jolla, Calif, resort (where his visit coincided, as it did last year, with that of J. Edgar Hoover), Joe McCarthy returned to Washington to face the Watkins investigation of his past deeds, and to hear the Mundt committee's verdict on his scrap with the Army. The verdict was not clear...