Word: cassino
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...happening to the once relatively liberal regime of Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka. At the start of World War II, Wankowicz fled Nazi-occupied Poland, accompanied Polish army units in the Italian campaign as a war correspond ent, and told their story in his best-selling book Battle of Monte Cassino. Soon after war's end he settled in the U.S. with his wife and daughter, became an American citizen. Homesick and impressed by the new intellectual freedom under Gomulka, he visited Poland in 1958, then four years later settled in Warsaw permanently. At first he was lionized...
...14th century Benedictine abbey of Monte Cassino, in central Italy 80 miles south of Rome, was razed by Allied bombers because it was being used as a German stronghold. Today the monastery has been rebuilt in all its Renaissance splendor. Nonetheless, said Pope Paul VI, 67, consecrating its new church, "Just as it seems incredible that war should have been made against this abbey, so it does not seem real to us to see it restored. It is as if it wished to delude us into thinking nothing had happened. We do not wish to pass judgment on those...
...sleek goddess was projected into the skies, from the 1920s' Mae Murray of the bee-stung lips, the memory of whom is still enough to make old men tumble from rooming house porches, to Marilyn Monroe, Hollywood's last legend of sex. Fighting men in training for Cassino and Saipan were supplied with endless photos of film Aphrodites-Jane Russell in the hay; Rita Hayworth in a negligee; Betty Grable wearing high heels, an ankle bracelet, and a one-piece bathing suit; Lana Turner in the sweater...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The Allied attack on Cassino in film clips and narrative. Special guests are General Mark Clark and Nazi General Fridolin von Senger, who fought it out there. Repeat...
...elite organizations, comparable to the U.S. Marines and Britain's Brigade of Guards. To its own members (over the years the majority have been German or Slav), the Legion is an unparalleled string of battles, from Constantine in 1837 to Sebastopol, Magenta, the Somme, Verdun, Narvik, Bir Hakeim, Cassino, Dienbienphu, and Algiers in 1960. Its flag, "whose staff bends under the weight of its glory," is one of the most cited and decorated of all the world's regimental standards...