Word: contadini
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Several hundred perspiring contadini and townspeople thronged the parish church in the southern Italian village of Cellino San Marco to shout "Autograph, autograph!" and to see a local boy, pop singer Al Bano, 27, marry Tyrone Power's daughter Romina, 18. The lovely bride kept an apprehensive eye on her mother, who had threatened not to attend the wedding. Power's widow, still spirited Linda Christian, 45, had referred to her singing son-in-law as "nothing but an ape with eyeglasses...
...year experiment on diet, which spans three continents and seven nations and is still growing. Pursuing it, he has logged 500,000 miles, suffered indescribable digestive indignities, and meticulously collected physiological data on the health and eating habits of 10,000 individuals, from Bantu tribesmen to Italian contadini. He has measured the skinfolds (the fleshy areas under the shoulder blades) of Neapolitan firemen, studied the metabolism of Finnish woodcutters, analyzed the "mealie-meal" eaten by Capetown coloreds, and experimented on Minneapolis businessmen...
...were costing them votes. While the party's strength held fast in the north, "its greater energy" was making deep inroads into the rural south (and recent small-town elections support this claim). He was especially happy over the party's successful proselytizing of the stubbornly conservative "contadini" (peasants), who have everywhere been the Marxists' highest hurdle: "In population percentage our strongest local federation in Italy is in Siena-in the heart of Tuscany's vineyards and olive groves-and I'm not sure there's even a single factory there...
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