Word: antonio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Proud Eye. Italy's urbane, frail Premier Antonio Segni comes from Sardinia. As the father of Italy's postwar land reform (he himself surrendered 200 acres of rich olive groves outside Sassari), Premier Segni keeps a proud eye on the Sardinian transformation, and almost every Sunday without fail flies the 125 miles from Rome to his Sassari villa. The new Sardinia may do him political good, too, helping to hold his Christian Democratic pluralities on the island in Italy's nationwide municipal elections a fortnight hence...
There was, for a starter, the charge of threatened arson. One night not long after Padre Antonio Zamorano took over the parish in 1942, his flock, mostly peasants who lived and worked on neighboring estates, came to the church in tearful anger. A landlord, annoyed by one of his farmhand tenants, had refused to pay any of them for their work that week. The priest, whose life until then had been the unharried existence of a Catholic school teacher of algebra, Latin and Greek, was shocked. "Is weeping all you propose to do?" he roared at his parishioners...
...AITCHES San Antonio...
...sportswriter who never covered anything more exciting than home-town boxing bouts for Texas' San Antonio News, young (29) Dan Cook nursed a Technicolored dream: to stop the presses for a Page One beat. One night last week-as he later told the story-an anonymous phone call promised the big chance. The caller tipped him to "the biggest robbery pulled since the Brink's job"-the theft of $200,000 from a safe in Houston, some 200 miles to the east. The voice even gave Cook the address and automobile license number of the robber...
...toting a pistol. Then the pair took off for Houston, stopping occasionally on the way to fortify themselves with beer. "I got to thinking," Cook later recalled, "if I could go over to Houston and clean up the case and bring the man and the money back to San Antonio and dump it all in the lap of the police chief, I would be famous." Finally, in a beer-blurred haze of headlines and bylines, Cook rapped on the door at the Houston address...