Word: clara
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...love story that could very easily have become a tearjerker. Margaret Johnson is a Southern woman at the age when most facts of life have become more plain than attractive. Her husband is comfortably well off, her figure is still good, and she is on vacation in Italy with Clara, her 26-year-old daughter. Because of a childhood head injury, Clara has the mentality of a child of ten. The love between mother and daughter is surely suggested, not spelled out, in moments of flashing sweetness. What bothers Mrs. Johnson is that her simple-minded but beautiful child...
Fabrizio obviously does not know that Clara is mentally deficient, but there is no doubting his or his family's seriousness. Mrs. Johnson's dilemma is simple but terrible. Shall she explain and take her daughter away from disturbing Florence, or shall she give her daughter the chance at a normal woman's life that she will never get back home? In one moving moment she realizes that Clara, "whether she could do long division or not, was a woman...
Unblinkered Humaneness. Slyly, gently, a wily old civilization sets a question afloat: Is Clara a virgin? Money is vaguely but obviously to be considered: What dowry? To Clara's mother, all this is evidence of deep, cultural differences: "It's simply that they are facing what I am hiding from." And Fabrizio's father, devoted though he is to his fat, pious wife, is unmistakably attracted to Mrs. Johnson. Italian practicality, ruthlessness, an odd breed of unblinkered humaneness, scrapes blatantly against U.S. generosity and naivet...
...landing on the northeast coast of Oriente province (see map) went on trial before an army tribunal. The next morning Zarba and seven men were dead, gunned down on an army rifle range near San Juan Hill. The remaining 13 drew prison terms up to 30 years. In Santa Clara another 200 rebels, rounded up in the Sierra Escambray, got an equally swift trial: less than five minutes per man. Verdicts: death for five, jail terms up to 30 years for most of the rest. At week's end two more U.S. survivors of the Oriente landing were captured...
...Lynn Burke, 17, of the Santa Clara (Calif.) Swim Club, windmilled the 100-meter backstroke in 1:09.2 to break her own world record by .8 sec., set a furious pace that left 1956 Silver Medal Winner Corin Cone, 19, back in third place-and off the Olympic team...