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...Tyrol. Forty years ago, in disregard of Woodrow Wilson's principle of ethnic frontiers, but honoring the secret 1915 promise that drew Italy into the war on the side of the Triple Entente (Britain, France and Russia), the victorious Allies awarded Italy the strategic Brenner Pass and a slice of Austrian Alpine territory the size of Connecticut leading up to it. The Italians changed the name of the region to Alto Adige, Italianized town and street names. Benito Mussolini's eager henchmen even substituted "Giovanni" for "Johannes" on tombstones...
...other departments of Major National Security, the budgetmakers raise atomic energy funds a lean 4% to $2.8 billion, trim strategic stockpiling funds, slice foreign military aid a surprising 20% to $1.8 billion...
...uneasy stirrings of Afro-Asian self-determination cast a harsh glare on the turgid cataract of independence and democracy, per se, as they sink their roots ever deeper into the rich brown soil of the ancient Fertile Crescent, that strife-ridden slice of the mordacious Middle East which includes the Bedouins of Syria, the Riffs of Jordan, the fiercely patriotic people of brave little Israel, the Nomads of the Saudi-Arabian wastelands, the oil-rich sheiks of Kuwait and the curvaceous cuties of the Cairo Casbah, not to mention the nubile Nubians of the nether Nile, the nemesis of Nasser...
...Felsenstein, opera is a highly seasoned slice of life; to Wallmann, it is musical pie-in-the-sky. East Berlin's Turandot, staged by Felsenstein Protégé Joachim Herz but supervised by the boss himself, stressed naturalistic stage effects, an infinite concern for dramatic detail, and acting of startling realism. The curtain rose on an iron grille stretched across the proscenium, representing the palace gate separating the chorus of rag-clad Chinese from the palace courtyard, where one of Turandot's unsuccessful suitors was about to be executed. The mob faced the audience in silence...
Expenses of integrating his new companies will slice Standard's earnings to about $1 a share in 1958. In 1959 Chandler expects to do better, though convertible stock, which Standard has issued to buy one company and stock options, could dilute per-share earnings by as much as 35% if converted into common. Chandler expects potential profits from new products to help make up for any dilution. Among them: plastic-coated punch cards that would last longer than present business-machine cards, and paperboard containers for oil. In Chandler's office are six paperboard containers, shaped like milk...