Word: antonios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...GUERRA San Antonio Sir: TIME . . . pictures all the Soviet leaders as "stone-faced," angry and cruel ... I think the expression on Bulganin's face, as drawn by Boris Chaliapin, is not fair! Bulganin looks to me like a most lovable, goodhearted . . . grandfather...
...Congressman John J. Bell, have been indicted. Governor Shivers and Attorney General Shepperd have been rebuked by a state senate investigating committee for negligence and, no doubt, will feel the scandal's sting politically. As for Bascom Giles, he will go on trial again Aug. 15 in San Antonio for taking a $30,000 bribe, and still faces three other indictments charging him with taking bribes totaling...
...first Sardinian ever to become Premier of Italy, scholarly Antonio Segni made his reputation as Minister of Agriculture under the late Alcide de Gasperi. In his zeal for land reform, he once expropriated a quarter of his own estate and compensated his wife, to whom some of the land originally belonged, with a bottle of perfume. Straightforward, witty and courteous, Segni is more at home in the classroom or the law court than in the back rooms of Italian politics. He is not a robust man, yet, in the drawn-out bargaining and bickering process that constitutes Cabinetmaking in Italy...
Truce Between Factions. Not for him was the "opening to the left" offered by Fellow Traveler Pietro Nenni and his 75 left-wing Socialists. Instead, Antonio Segni concentrated on closing the fissure that threatened to split his Christian Democrats wide open. Right-wing Christian Democrats under ex-Premier Giuseppe Pella had been instrumental in bringing Scelba down. Segni placated them with an offer of two ministries: Finance and Administrative Reform...
Prescience. In San Antonio, after predicting local thunderstorms, Weather Forecaster Milton Rudd went atop the weather station to check instrument readings, was knocked flat by a bolt of lightning...