Word: antonio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Polished Gentleman. In Giugliano, Italy, Antonio Pollastro charged his two sons with kidnaping and abusive treatment after they dragged him outside his home, gave him an unrequested hot bath, shave and haircut...
...round the world direly reporting that nothing less than freedom itself was at stake in Sicily. And as the time came for Sicilians to elect a new regional assembly, Christian Democratic orators by the Fiat-ful raced about the island tirelessly echoing the warning of Italy's Premier Antonio Segni: "We must be on our guard if we are not to awaken in the bear hug of Communism...
...quarter of a century ascetic Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar has slaved 18 hours a day, six days a week, giving the Portuguese the sternly ordered rule he thinks best for them. The least the little economics professor expected in return was public admiration, and for a surprisingly long time for a strongman, he got it. But though his budgets are tidily balanced, his people are still poor, and increasingly fed up with the lack of freedom and the harsh police methods of Salazar's paternal dictatorship. Portugal's money is stronger than the dollar, and prices...
...parcel out the sugar land in free lots of at least 66 acres for each farm family. "Colonization stations," with tractors and agricultural experts, will help the new landowners, he said. He runs the reform institute personally, and to help him he picked a onetime Communist youth leader named Antonio Nunez Jimenez...
...outspoken Virgil Blossom, 52, was forced to leave town. Out of work for nearly six months (and still owed nearly $7,700 by Little Rock), Dr. Blossom has a new job: in July he will take over the semi-integrated schools of San Antonio, which sought him mainly for his talents as an organizer of new schools...