Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost four years the mysterious drowning of a Roman carpenter's daughter has been postwar Italy's biggest political scandal. The discovery of the half-clad body of 21-year-old Wilma Montesi on a beach near Rome in April 1953 very nearly brought down the government of then Premier Mario Scelba. Because of it, the chief of Italy's national police, the chief of the Roman police force and Foreign Minister Attilio Piccioni resigned. When the Communist daily L'Unita solemnly declared that the Montesi case was a symbol of the moral bankruptcy...
...child). Almost at once, this alibi, too, began to fall apart. What remained was the damning testimony of one of his fellow employees that on the day of Wilma's death Uncle Giuseppe had left his office early, announcing that he was going down to Ostia, near the beach where his niece's body was later found...
...Marjorie McCoy, said she had not known that the Ellises were Jewish, began fighting to have Hildy turned over to a Catholic agency. Massachusetts courts ordered the Ellises to do so; instead, they .left their Boston home, took Hildy to Florida. Last week, returning from the hearing to Miami Beach, where Hildy was about to graduate from first grade, Frances Ellis collapsed in her plane seat, mumbled "Thank God, thank God." Hildy will be free to choose her own religion, say the Ellises, when she is old enough...
...widely publicized letter to Missionary-Physician Albert Schweitzer (TIME, May 6), he said that its threat to growing children is at present about the same as from "the additional dosage that a resident at sea level would receive from cosmic rays if he moved from a beach to the top of a hill a few hundred feet high...
...kitchens for small apartments. Last year his Murphy Door Bed Co. sold only 10,000 letdown beds, making most of its $1,000,000 sales from kitchen units. Last week, as the company planned a comeback in house-trailer Murphy beds, Inventor Murphy died at 81 in Belle Vista Beach...