Word: antonios
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...Premier Antonio Segni's government, it was a welcome verdict of approval, and Christian Democratic strategists calculated happily that if national elections were held now, the government would considerably bolster its slim, 16-vote majority in the Chamber of Deputies...
...citizens of San Antonio, Texas turned out last week in admiring tribute to the dean of U.S. sculptors, Lithuanian-born William Zorach, 69, whose massive figures have for the past four decades decorated the U.S. scene. On view at the McNay Art Institute was a retrospective showing of 27 of Zorach's sculptures, photographs of his best-known works, and 65 of his drawings and watercolors, on loan from leading U.S. museums and collectors. Editorialized the San Antonio News: "The most beautiful and exciting sculpture that it has ever been our happy privilege to see." The San Antonio Express...
...walled town above the Christian Democratic slogan: "Liberate our communes from the trustees of Moscow!" For the first time in four years, Italy's 7,143 communes are electing new governments next Sunday. Though only municipal elections, they will be read as a political referendum on Premier Antonio Segni's year-old Christian Democratic government. Italy's biggest political guns, from Segni himself to the Communists' Palmiro Togliatti, scoured the country orating...
...brains in Spain stay mainly on the plain of honorable cheating in the universities. Cheating on exams, nearly universal there, becomes dishonorable only when the cheater gets caught. Few realized how great a premium this risk placed on student ingenuity, however, until last month, when waggish José Antonio Suárez, the students' cultural-activities boss at the University of Barcelona, organized a public exhibition of chuletas. A chuleta (literally, cutlet) is academic slang for a crib note or, by extension, any cribbing device. Opposed by the University of Barcelona's brass, Suárez went ahead...
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...