Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...votes controlled by Italy's fellow-traveling Stalin Prize winner Pietro Nenni have always been regarded as forbidden fruit, something to be enviously eyed but eventually rejected. The price always looked too high. Last week Fellow Traveler Pietro Nenni, one of Italy's shrewdest politicians, embarrassed the Christian Democratic government of Antonio Segni by offering his votes free...
...noisy welcome in Communist China (TIME, Oct. 31), was at the top of his parliamentary form. Before the Italian Chamber was an uninspired piece of legislation aimed at modifying an old Fascist law which gave extensive authority to military courts. For support of the mild proposed modification, the Christian Democrats depended on the votes of Italy's Monarchist and neo-Fascist right...
...Socialist strategy saved the government from serious embarrassment. A government budget bill was about to be defeated because about 40 government supporters were absent. A Nenni henchman, while publicly opposing the budget, sent 30 or 40 Communist and Socialist members out of the hall to match the missing Christian Democrats. The Segni government was saved from a defeat. Philosophizing on his new strategy (which Italians are calling the Strategy of the Smile), Nenni said: "The slow disintegration of the majority is turning the Houses of Parliament into a sort of jungle . . . We are not concerned with overthrowing ministers by secret...
...Second National Conference on Spiritual Foundations met in Washington, D.C., with some 250 religious leaders and laymen-Christian, Jewish, Moslem, Hindu and Buddhist-and heard such potent speakers as Vice President Nixon, Admirals Radford and Strauss. "Civilization," said the conference message, "rests ultimately upon an act of belief. A renaissance of civilization in the 'postmodern' era already taking shape depends upon a revival of faith in God and a fresh synthesis of faith and reason...
...ensuing plunder, the monastery's library was scattered - including a Bible scriven some 30 years before, near the end of the Merovingian dynasty. A fragment of that Bible has now turned up at Yale University. Most exciting fact about the find : it is probably the oldest manuscript of Christian music in existence...