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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...
...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...
...girls with gold wrist watches and nylons before eventually choosing one 14-year-old, Nelly Rivas, as his special favorite (TIME, Oct. 10). ¶ Atomic "Scientist" Ronald Richter, who never split an atom, expertly diffused $3,700,000 of Argentina's money in his fumbling attempts. ¶ Jorge Antonio, Mercedes-Benz tycoon and Perón crony, profiteered on so vast a scale that a subcommittee named exclusively to investigate him seriously recommended a fine of more than $1 billion. ¶ Defense Minister José Humberto Sosa Molina got from Perón 265 car import licenses, each worth...