Word: bolognas
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Valdo Magnani's closest friend was his fellow deputy from Bologna, Aldo Cucchi, in private life a surgeon who also specialized in studies of hemp workers' diseases. Cucchi had led an Italian partisan unit against the Nazis and Fascists, won his country's highest gold medal for bravery. In the Chamber of Deputies, he acted as a bodyguard for Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti...
...wall of the public registrar's office in the village of Campogalliano (5½ miles off the main road from Modena to Bologna), hangs a large portrait of Garibaldi. From under beetling brows, the old revolutionary soldier looks down on two municipal workers: Ostilio Iotti, 26, whose wife is rich but not pretty, and Santina Caffani, a widow of 30 or more. Together they keep the village records and accounts. Last summer a rumor sprang up that Ostilio and Santina were more to each other than coworkers; the sofa in the registrar's office was often mentioned...
...prize-a 150-lb. calf-went to a Bologna leftist named Armando Baldinelli. His oil of peasants parading with pitchforks was straightforward enough, but it was also as pedestrian as it was proletarian. Other artists carted off such prizes as an irrigation pump, a pony, fertilizer, tomato paste, sausages, and of course cheeses...
...reputability in a public opinion poll--as any reasonably sophisticated concentrator in Social Relations will tell you. The misuse of the public opinion poll during the 1948 election demonstrates demanding the most devoted care. It is not built on the simple mechanical order of, let us say, a bologna slicer, and confusion of the two can cause no end of difficulty...
...fall of 1948, not far from the Red center of Bologna, a Christian Democrat labor organizer, Giuseppe Fanin, 26, was found battered and dying on a roadside. He had been hit on the head with an iron bar, kicked in the belly with nailed boots because he had urged farm laborers to secede from the CGIL. In May 1949, Anselmo Martoni, 30, a moderate Socialist, urged the braccianti (landless peasants) of Molinella to defy a Communist strike order. He was waylaid and slugged. Red bullyboys tried vainly to browbeat his mother into signing a paper declaring her son a bastard...