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...secluded life in Piazza Armerina, a town of 28,000 set in the bleak, sun-baked hills of central Sicily. At home, Maria was so strictly supervised that she could not even go to church alone. But each weekday, Maria traveled 40 miles to and from the University of Catania, where she was working toward a teaching degree. Last spring Maria entered a geography course taught by handsome Professor Francesco Speranza...
...neighbor. Mamma and Maria had it out, and when the girl confessed her affair, she had to repeat it all to her father, Gaetano Furnari, 40, who jumped up from the dining-room table and ordered Maria to follow him. Hiring a car and muttering imprecations, Furnari drove to Catania. Dragging Maria behind him, he burst into a classroom where Speranza and two other professors were holding oral examinations of 15 students...
...most interesting thing about this place is its owner, Lou Catania. A poor-but-honest spaghetti-puller from the old country? Not on your life. He barbered his way through the (U.S.) depression, marrying the boss's daughter. Aften ten years as a railroad brakeman, he surrendered to hay fever (dust in the baggage car) and founded a chain of pizza parlors around Boston and the Cape. "Leaning Tower of Pizza," that inspired pun, brought him national interest and the attentions of a large noodle concern. The Prince Spaghetti Company settled on Tower like a great leaking blimp...
With her honor so clearly restored, even Enzo d'Agostino felt in a forgiving mood. In the chapel of Catania's prison he married her, then went home to wait for her release from jail. It might not be long; so moved was all Italy by Vincenzina's story last week that President Giovanni Gronchi was reportedly about to pardon...
Last week, in the new Catania industrial zone, a $4,000,000 steel fabricating plant went into operation. Nearby, close to Messina, work started on a $5,000,000 plant to .produce frozen orange juice. At Augusta, a ghost port barely five years ago, a third major project was completed, a multimillion-dollar oil refinery with a capacity of 2,800,000 tons annually and new docks for 45,000-ton oil tankers. At Enna, in Sicily's depressed interior, Milan Edison was putting the finishing touches on a $16 million chemical plant. All told, since 1948 nearly...