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...dreamed-of subway was a mere seven miles long (only 3^ miles of it underground) and apparently designed to carry its passengers from nowhere to nowhere. Built well away from the heart of the city where the real traffic congestion lies, its ten stations (with such impressive names as Colosseum and Circus Maximus) trail out in a dreary anticlimax through Rome's environs to the great cluster of derelict, half-completed marble buildings which Mussolini once hoped would become the site of a permanent World's Fair. City planners are hopeful that the city may grow out that...
...brilliant new pianist appeared in the U.S. last week. He is Florence's Pietro Scarpini, 43, so far known in the U.S. only through one recording of Stravinsky and Bartok (Colosseum) and the praise of his American pupils. Last week, in Carnegie Hall, he performed with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony under Dimitri Mitropoulos. His selection: Prokofiev's rarely played, difficult Concerto...
...contest was really all over. But the lions and jackals, not yet sated with crisis, would not be denied their sport. For the next two days the old Montecitorio Palace, which houses Parliament, was Rome's modern-day Colosseum and Amintore Fanfani its doomed Christian. Giuseppe Saragat, who held the power to install Fanfani and his democratic Cabinet by a thin margin, alibied that the Premier was trying to appear to be leftist, and yet was compromising with the Monarchists. "One cannot turn toward us and at the same time turn toward the right," said he in an emotional...
...seen the great Colosseum...
...Stadium was completed in time for the Dartmouth game of 1903, and this New-World colosseum had its first full house a week later, when 38,400 people jammed its seats to see the Crimson play Yale...