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...Toward Communist Shores." What do the uneasy partners expect to get out of the coalition? The Christian Democrats hope that participation in the government will educate the Socialists to the responsibilities of power, produce the necessary backing for economic and social reforms that may steal political thunder from the Communists (who did alarmingly well in the last elections). For the Socialists, the lure of Cabinet portfolios offers the opportunity to shape Italy's future along Marxist lines, before enlightened capitalists make socialism and its slogans thoroughly obsolete...
Apollinaire didn't steal it really. That heroic act was reserved for an Italian house painter with an inflated sense of national pride. But Apollinaire and the young Picasso did happen to be harboring some statuettes that a zany friend had stolen from the Louvre as a joke. Once, during the national furor which followed, Apollinaire and Picasso wandered the streets of Paris for an entire night, miserably toting the incriminating statuettes in a suitcase, not knowing whether to throw them or themselves into the Seine and not quite daring to do either. Eventually, Apollinaire had them returned...
...means for rooting out corruption are needed, he said, and he stressed the role of the Massachusetts Crime Commission in the fight. "The boys don't steal the way they used to; these days it takes a Certified Public Accountant just to know there's been a theft...
...very first thing Elsa did in her life was to steal the show; she was born in an opera box during a performance of Mignon, in Keokuk, Iowa. "My mother should have known better than to go to the opera that night," she once observed. She grew up, fat and unhappy, in San Francisco, where her father was an insurance man and stringer for the New York Dramatic Mirror...
Priced at $3,540 in Britain (including a $615 purchase tax), the new Rover sells for less than the cheapest Jaguar, and on the Continent should be highly competitive with the small Mercedes and Citroën. Rover executives worry whether the 2000's flashy good looks will steal sales from its staid older brothers, which are still in production. But why worry? At the London show, Rover salesmen have already collected enough orders for the new car to keep Rover's plants running at full speed for an entire year...