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...Haley and His Comets or The Platters, or a soloist such as Elvis Presley-the shrieks become deafening. The tumult completely drowns the sound of the spastically gyrating performers despite fully powered amplification. Only the obsessive beat pounds through, stimulating the crowd to such rhythmical movements as clapping in tempo and jumping and dancing in the aisles. Sometimes the place vibrates with the beat of music and stamping feet, and not infrequently kids have been moved to charging the stage, rushing ushers and theater guards...
Behind the Art. That was how things stood on May 17, when a disgruntled Zurich lawyer named Bruno Greuter told a reporter from Rome's conservative Il Tempo a startling story. Back in 1951, said Greuter, his friend Reale dropped in at his office, said he was tired of political life, and asked for help in setting up a little import-export business in art objects. Greuter arranged to sell him the stock of an acquaintance's long-moribund holding company, Terbita. But far from quitting public life, Reale got elected to the Italian Senate, and sent...
Much of this has been known to the Italian police since 1953, when the Swiss deported D'Allessandri and his assistants, and sent their findings to Rome. After Il Tempo's reporter got his story, some action followed at last. Italian police arrested 24 men in Milan and charged them with "conspiracy with foreigners against the national interest." One was D'Allessandri. In Rome, Communist ex-Senator Reale continued to enjoy his singular immunity, and insisted he had done nothing wrong. Said he: "I'm not taking this seriously...
...administration did not hesitate to act in opposition to these voices during the economic recession of 1953-54. The timing and tempo of its use of fiscal controls in general support of the economy may provide questions for legitimate political disagreement and debate. But it cannot be charged with denying the need for government action...
...This is a new missionary field," says the National Council. "America today is a business society. Often our most meaningful experiences in life occur at work. Because of its increasingly competitive tempo, our business life is one area in which religious principles are in danger of being excluded...