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...journalists to the bleak little mountain town south of Palermo. Ever since 1929, when a visiting Fascist minister promised that the government would build a dam near by, Roccamenensi have eagerly looked forward to the day when they would be able to irrigate their parched fields and perhaps even stanch the northward exodus of hungry peasants that has emptied whole villages in the area. In 1952 the government finally earmarked $12.8 million for the project and promised repeatedly that construction would start in no time. Then, last summer, the indignant townsfolk discovered that they had been hoodwinked: the funds allot...
Jokes in Crisis. The two men became stanch allies and farm friends, although Stanton never could abide Lincoln's habit of cracking jokes in time of crisis. "God damn it to hell," Stanton stormed after one round of presidential humor, "was there ever such nonsense?" Stanton once told a petitioner that the President was a damned fool. When the petitioner repeated the remark to the President, Lincoln professed astonishment: "Did Stanton call me a damn fool? Well, I guess I had better step over and see Stanton about this. Stanton is usually right...
Some of the most publicized cases have involved seemingly stanch supporters of apartheid, including one high government official. Many white policemen have been arrested for making love to non-white prisoners in their own scout cars...
Died. Louis Charles Rabaut, 74, pro-labor Democratic Congressman from Michigan's 14th District (Greater Detroit), a stanch Roman Catholic whose shining achievement in 13 pale terms in the House was the 1954 legislation inserting the words "under God" into the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance; of a heart attack; in Hamtramck, Mich...
...form a coalition government after his Christian Democrats lost their Bundestag majority in West Germany's September election, Adenauer had to stanch a revolt in his own party and stretch its program to the snapping point. All this took 80 hours of wrangling with Erich Mende's cocky minority Free Democratic Party, which is primarily a conservative businessmen's party but also harbors such ill-assorted bedfellows as former Nazis and militant socialists. Wrathfully, Adenauer signed an agreement to step down by the end of 1963, when he will have ruled West Germany for twelve straight years...