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Enjoyed your May 28 story on Robin Roberts; there's one pitcher that's worth a thousand words...
Torn by the denigration-of-Stalin issue, Palmiro Togliatti's Communists lost more heavily than expected-several hundred thousand votes. But what Togliatti lost, his Socialist ally Pietro Nenni picked up. "It is like having a liter of wine and two bottles," said one former Communist cynically. "You may pour wine from one bottle to another, or back and forth as you like, but you still have the liter." One Italian voter in three was still voting the Communist line...
...days later Nehru went to Bombay for a Congress Party meeting. A thousand police guarded the road from the airport against possible violence. This time the threatened violence was not from labor unionists, but from demonstrators who opposed the Nehru government's plan to make Bombay a centrally administered area. Sitting before a statue of Gandhi, Nehru made an impassioned plea: "When your enemy tries to wound you, you get hurt, but the wound heals in course of time. But when your brother inflicts injuries on you, the wound takes a long time to heal. Dead bodies...
...emphatically refused to touch the stuff. Drivers were not the only customers: at a gas station in Charlotte, N.C. an inspector saw a teen-age boy plunk down a dollar bill for a bag of a dozen bennies (Benzedrine tablets), which wholesale in large quantities for about $2 a thousand...
...spent six weeks making buys at the spots turned up in the preliminary survey. At one drugstore they had no trouble buying 2,000 pep pills, saying they wanted to peddle them to other drivers. But a second druggist was smarter: he took $55 from the inspectors for a thousand pills that turned out to be aspirin...