Word: calabria
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...international research team (including Boston's Dr. Paul Dudley White and Minneapolis' Dr. Ancel Keys) pursued the relationship between different kinds of dietary fat and heart disease. They checked men living in Calabria and Crete, who get nearly all their fat from olive oil. Among 657 rural Cretans aged 45 to 65 there were only two with evidence of heart attacks. A similar sample of Americans, whose diet includes large amounts of animal fats, would show about 60 cases...
...ancient law of the lawless Mafia through out Sicily and southern Italy. One day last week, a witness in court broke the Mafia's law. For the benefit of seven solemn judges sitting in an old stone courthouse overlooking the blue Tyrrhenian Sea, an ignorant peasant of Calabria and a former member of the organization told all that he knew. "I know they have sworn to kill me," he cried, "but I don't care. Justice will punish me for what I have done, and justice will punish them as well...
...Rings. One look at her and the young mayor was smitten with a disease compounded of love and a paralyzing bashfulness. Before this gentle girl, who could both read and write, the dashing romantic was unable to speak a word. Desperate, he raced off to the town of Reggio Calabria to ask the advice of some more experienced guappi. "Appeal to her feminine curiosity," they suggested, and told him a few tricks of the trade. After that, Pietro, in the company of two friends, took up a stand opposite Francesca's door, puffing cigarettes in an urbane manner, blowing...
...story was not ended yet. Last week, when the happy wedding party arrived in Reggio Calabria to make their final plans, Francesca the bride slipped away from her husband-to-be, ran to the police, retracted all her former statements, and accused Pietro of rape. "They will kill me now, I suppose," she said as the police took the mayor into custody, "but I would rather die than marry...
...entire town of Santo Stefano filed silently to the cemetery, black-rimmed posters appeared on village walls all over Calabria saying, "Musolino is dead. He held liberty high...