Word: calabria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Montalto, a rugged 6,417-ft. peak in the toe of the Italian boot, were hardly your average weekend motorists. Noting the stream of big cars -Pëugeots, Mercedes and Citröens-a cruising carabiniere radioed his suspicions to Police Chief Alberto Sabatino in nearby Reggio di Calabria, capital of dirt-poor Calabria province. Chief Sabatino agreed that such a caravan could mean only one thing...
...back, the sentry led the police up to a glade where some 130 men were gathered. Six of the men, apparently wary of informers, wore black hoods. Most were heavily armed, and all were obviously members of L'Onorata Società (the Honored Society), Calabria's branch of the Mafia...
According to the police, last week's mass meeting was "without precedent" in Calabria. The hoods did, however, steal a few lines from some distant cousins. After the famous 1957 raid at Apalachin, N.Y., the 60 mobsters who were seized there explained that they had assembled for nothing more sinister than a friendly cookout. To a man, the Montalto Mafiosi insisted that they were just "gathering mushrooms...
...vote counting, begins to behave strangely. The Communist vote goes up while the government vote stands still. Everyone laughs and has another glass of champagne. But LILY keeps moving the Communists up. A commentator who sounds like H. V. Kaltenborn in 1948 says, "Wait until the vote from Calabria and Sicily starts coming...
...seemingly compatible people are brought down by a typical Pavese monster: ennui. Not much here, but short and clean; no wasted words. The House on the Hill has bigger aims. Pavese was an anti-Fascist who was put in prison by the Mussolini regime, and then exiled to Calabria. Actually, he failed to do much more than sympathize with those who risked their lives. He was a fighter through the mouth, and it troubled him. The timid schoolteacher in The House on the Hill is again Pavese. The teacher loves the peasant partisans of the story but lacks their guts...