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Some sort of shake-up in Italy's government seemed inevitable as a result of the recent elections in which the Reds held their own, and right-wing parties made substantial gains (TIME, June 11). The big question: Could Christian Democrat Alcide de Gasperi trim his sails to the new winds merely by reshuffling his cabinet, or would his coalition government collapse after 5½ years of rule? Last week Treasury Minister Giuseppe Pella resigned because of opposition from both extreme right and extreme left to his anti-inflationary budget plan. When Pella refused to reconsider, all the other...
...acts are as cheerfully muddled as the setting. The "spirit of Aladdin's lamp," a hefty chorine, turns Aladdin into a white spitz dog, which pops out of a passing boat. As the star attraction, four water maidens push a water-borne platform on which a trim, silver-skirted ballerina does a lotus dance. The whole thing ends with singers diving off the stage into the river, and with blubbery "eunuchs" being tossed out of boats. The Rhine takes it all with hardly a murmur...
...side. There were no pictures of Stalin, no poster propaganda of any kind. The atmosphere was courteous but unbending and stiff; the Communist delegation was composed of a North Korean colonel named Chang Chun San and two lieutenant colonels, one North Korean, one Chinese (plus two interpreters). Chang, a trim man in a green, Russian-style uniform with red shoulder boards, did all the talking for his side...
...week without amendment, but the Senate may not act upon the measure until late September. Members of the potent Senate Finance Committee have already said that they will cut the income-tax increase, shorten the length of time for which increases will be retroactive, and insist that the Government trim at least $5 billion of fat out of its nonwar expenditures, in order to make the budget balance even with the smaller tax yield...
...Give These Books." The college that was to grow into Yale University was born on a table top in the parlor of a trim farmhouse in Branford, Conn. To that house, one day in 1700-when Harvard was already 64 years old and Princeton still 46 years away-came ten clergymen from all over the Colony, bearing books. One by one, each approached the table with the words: "I give these books for founding a college in Connecticut." By the next year the new "Collegiate School" had a charter, and by the year after that, one student-a wistful sophomore...