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...votes from De Gasperi's center. With their appeal for a return to the tawdry glories of Mussolini, the neo-Fascists won 29 Chamber seats. Biggest gainers were the Monarchists, led by Naples' wealthy, shipowning Mayor Achille Lauro, whose big promises and free handouts of spaghetti and clothes won 7% of the votes and 40 seats...
...last ten years Monsignor Bacci has been doing his best to revive and enliven the Latin of Cicero (106-43 B.C.). As editor of the Latin Dictionary of Modern Terms, he has translated hundreds of post-Ciceronian words and phrases, from newspaper reporter (diurnarius scriptor-daily writer), to spaghetti (pasta vermiculata-little worm-shaped dough) and "Tennis, anyone?" ("Ludere manubriato reticulo quisnam vult?"-"Is there someone who wants to play the game of the net with handle?"). Last week, Monsignor Bacci was embarked upon a new project: publication of the world's first international Latin quarterly...
...last week, only one day out of New York she ran into a 45-m.p.h. wind and rough seas. In the main dining room, tumbling furniture bruised 20 passengers, who suddenly found themselves, as one said, "swimming around in filet mignon, spaghetti and antipasto mixed with champagne." Next day the Andrea Doria proudly steamed up New York's Narrows to the traditional, tumultuous whistle and toot of a harbor welcome. Gale and all she was only minutes off schedule...
...airport's instrument-landing radar is a gadget-lover's dream. Outside, it blossoms with dials, scopes and switches, and its insides are stuffed with wires and vacuum tubes that look like spaghetti sprinkled with caviar. It is such an expensive gadget that only big airports can get it. Last week Britain's Ekco Co. was telling about its "poor man's radar," designed for the pocketbook of the small-field manager...
...answer to the problem of cooking its own meals. Liquor in Radcliffe dormitories is outlawed, but wine has saved almost every unsuccessful Peach House dish. A Hallowe'en party, lasting to an untraditional 2 a.m. this fall, showed off some unusual cookery that included wine-sauced spaghetti. Guests keep coming, though, two or three for every meal...