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...lonely gorge in the hills east of Rome. Father Picchioni was an itinerant olive-picker, chicken thief, and loud-mouthed braggart who was first a Fascist, later a Communist. Always roaring at his wife and children, he once made them dig a long family grave in the backyard so that "it will be ready when I want...
...Japanese, sitting innocently bombless between Soviet and U.S. test areas, can talk freely. Last week Dr. Yoshio Sugiura of the government's Meteorological Research Institute told a Kyoto meeting of the Japan Chemistry Society what he had deduced from "ashes of death" that fell in his own backyard...
...Korea; substantial Soviet gains in South Asia while America's relations with that area decline daily; loss of Cambodia in Southeast Asia to neutralism; serious setbacks to pro-Western Chancellor Adenauer in West Germany; alarming support in Greece for a Communist-backed political coalition; revolutions in our own backyard, in Brazil and Peru...
Last month, however, Transamerica nudged into Eccles' backyard; it bought three banks and four branches (for about $2,000,000) in Idaho from Walter E. Cosgriff, longtime Eccles rival and onetime RFC director. Last week Transamerica went onto the doorstep; it agreed to buy Salt Lake City's Walker Bank & Trust Co., Utah's oldest and second biggest bank, for $200 a share, will probably end by paying $14 million...
...Ogre. With $15,000 and a genius for things mechanical, Louis Renault and two brothers started building racing cars in 1899 in a shop in his mother's backyard. By 1908 the shop was a 50,000-sq.yd. factory in Billancourt, near Paris. Its 3,000 workers were soon building 5,000 Renault automobiles a year. And Louis Renault owned it all. Vulgar, loud, domineering, impatient, he was a terror to associates, a friend to practically none. To the French working man, Renault became "the ogre of Billancourt." He instituted piecework, maintained an internal intelligence and security system similar...