Word: calabria
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...Urbino with an umbrella in one hand and a knapsack on his back, he was spotted by two carabinieri and captured when his foot caught in a tangle of barbed wire. Sent to prison for life, he was declared insane twelve years later. Last week, he died in Reggio Calabria's mental hospital...
...Marcedusa (pop. 1,279) m the poverty-stricken central region of Calabria, the Communist mayor and the Communist council have switched in a body to the Christian Democrats...
Long-barbed durum wheat-the kind that is good for pasta-is turning gold in Sicily and Calabria. Soon the harvest will begin, rolling up the toe and shin and length of the Italian boot-possibly a bumper crop like last year's. Meanwhile, there are almonds to be picked on the rolling plains of Puglia, forage grass to be cut in the lush Po Valley, cherries to be picked off the greyish flatlands around Naples. And a bumper crop of tourists-perhaps 6,000,000 -is descending on Italy, eager to be harvested. To the tourist...
...long winter before me," he wrote bleakly in September 1783, "and am to get through it as I can. I know the ground before I tread upon it; it is hollow, it is agitated, it suffers shocks in every direction; it is like the soil of Calabria, all whirlpool and undulation; but I must reel through it-at least if I be not swallowed...
Called the "Sila Project," it is now under way in Calabria, on the heel of the Italian peninsula. In an eroded hilly region, about 40 miles wide and 100 miles deep, where three rich absentee families owned tens of thousands of acres, mostly idle or undercultivated, hundreds of impoverished peasant families are getting new land and new hope. Last week TIME Correspondent William Rospigliosi saw the reform in progress at Santa Severina, a village near Crotone. His report...