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...sunny public square of Marino, a medieval town high in the Roman Hills, good-natured carabinieri in soaking wet uniforms last week kept a riotous crowd back from the public fountain. One by one they let villagers and visitors approach. One spout flowed rich red wine, the other white, and it was free for all but those hoggish enough to try to use buckets. It was the annual vintage festival, celebrated in Marino for over a thousand years...
...Mason, Ohio, G. L. Gerard heard mountain fiddlers playing a tune from inside a rain spout on his barn. All over town tin roofs spat fire at the touch of a screwdriver, lights flashed on at 2 a. m. John La Mar, who sells melons, pointed an accusing finger at a steel tower which tapers 831 feet above the village, insisted: "I've watched clouds come rolling up until they reach that tower. Then they split in two and each part goes a different direction and we don't get a drop...
Arose the loudest hubbub in years at a meeting presided over by Il Duce. Every member of the Council seemed to have his own notion of how to proceed. Il Duce encouraged all to spout their ideas, only ringing his bell when the clamor grew too great. ''This meeting," said one of the Dictator's aides, "is the first of a series at which will be worked out the final economic organization of the Corporative State...
...fact that the Conference statesmen had almost completely disagreed, but instead that, "we have achieved a perfect comprehension of each others' thoughts." This comprehension had resulted in agreement on just one thing: the Conference, after holding a final plenary session at which speakers of all nations will spout on July 27, must then adjourn. As president of the Conference, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald declared that the Conference will surely reconvene next October, but a majority of delegates felt unquestionably that it was dead. Pittman's Plight. Who killed Cock Conference? Everyone except the U. S. delegation privately...
People thronged wharves and cliffs near Santa Cruz, Calif, to watch a titanic battle of the deep. The waves foamed white as a great whale lunged, thrashed, leaped at its enemy. At last the whale, with a final spout of disgust, swam wearily away. As it went its unscathed opponent, a bobbing iron whistling buoy, moaned mournful triumph...