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...Name of History. One who knew him intimately then says: "Till this moment, Togliatti would not have accepted too rigid dictation from Moscow. Now he began losing all such scruples." Later, the soul of Palmiro Togliatti plunged into a crisis that was to test, once & for all, its true nature. From Moscow came a simple order: Italian Socialists, though they risked their lives to fight Fascism, were "sabotaging" world revolution and must be liquidated; the Communists must deliver the secret roster of Socialist leaders to the Fascist police...
...Work. The quick-witted labor lawyer from Vera Cruz thrives on such fare. Mornings he works at the palace. Not till 3 does he break off for lunch. Afterwards he works, with sleeves rolled up and collar open, in the law-book-lined office of his Chapultepec-home. Sometimes the biggest issues get settled there...
...down the quayside, as unloading began, huge cranes bit into the piles of U.S. goods flowing into Argentina. So great was the jam of U.S. crates that port authorities last week ordered freighters following the Mormacwave to lie in the roadstead till the docks were partly cleared...
Congress passed the support law in 1942 to give farmers an incentive to raise enough food for World War II. The law provides that the Government support farm prices of 21 products at 90% of parity.* The law would remain in effect till two years after the end of hostilities (i.e., the end of 1948) so that U.S. farmers, who bitterly remember the 50% drop in farm prices soon after World War I, will not reduce their crops too soon...
...Brod recalls that when Kafka read to friends the opening chapters of The Trial (the story of a man crucified by inches), they laughed till the tears ran down their cheeks, and Kafka himself laughed so hard he could not go on reading. It is, says Novelist Thomas Mann solemnly, "very deep-rooted and involved" humor. Kafka's cosmic comedy of man's foredoomed failure in his quest for God is brought down to earth and up to the minute by the use (in The Trial and The Castle) of all the adventitious paraphernalia of 20th Century living...