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Adenauer, a staunch democrat in politics, is an autocrat of the breakfast and the dinner table. His son says: "Father leaves democracy at the door. He rules our family with a strong hand. If a rose tree must be transplanted, he decides when and where. If my sister wants to bake a cake, he must say yes or no. This is not unusual in Germany, you know; this is how it should...
Affrico lies in the district of Emilia, Italy's Reddest region, and most of its 500 people voted Communist at the last election. Don Giorgio is a staunch antiCommunist, but the whole village loved him. Last spring, when the old parish priest died, the people of Affrico allowed themselves, after a suitable interlude of grief, to exult over the prospect that Don Giorgio would now become their priest. But after a competitive examination the Archbishop of Bologna decided otherwise, gave the post to one Don Luciano Massa. Don Giorgio sadly left the village...
...bill came up calling for the creation of a new county carved from Sangamon and Morgan Counties. This posed a dilemma for Lincoln: because of pressure from home, he would have to vote for the new county, but the new county would mean the end of Sangamon's staunch Long Nine-possibly the end of Springfield as a capital. His solution: a referendum that tossed the county-division bill back to the voters while the Long Nine logrolled the Springfield bill to a quick decision...
J.B.S. Haldane, Britain's leading geneticist and a staunch Communist, has been beset for some time now by a problem of basic loyalties. Should he follow the Moscow-approved genetics line of Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (briefly, that environment controls the heredity of organisms)? Or should he follow the Morgan-Mendelian theory (that the genes in the reproductive cells control heredity), generally accepted outside the U.S.S.R., but formally denounced by Soviet officialdom as unscientific and un-Marxist...
...state. Certainly, it is not good for a king's popularity. Leopold, for example, just before the Belgian parliamentary elections in which the "royal question" of his return was the prime issue (TIME, July 4), decided without consulting anyone to play in the French international golf tournament. Staunch monarchists winced; the King, they said, ought not to compete with just "anybody." In New York former Belgian Premier Georges Theunis peevishly grumbled: "Ce gamin...