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...courtyard before the 18th century Tauride Palace was filled with artillery, machine guns, field kitchens. All the gates in the high grillwork fence were bolted except a small wicket gate at the extreme left, where we entered, single file. Each ticket of admission was studied by guards newly arrived from Finland and the Kronstadt naval base. There was a second checkup at the towering entrance to the palace, this time by units of a Latvian rifle brigade famed for its loyalty to Bolshevism and brought to Petrograd by Lenin because "the Russian peasant may vacillate if something happens-what...
Eight in a Bed. Dolci spared the reader no detail, however sordid, of life in Palermo's notorious Cascino Courtyard. There, 200 yards from the city's splendid cathedral, 260 families live in squalor in 210 rooms. Only one family has a toilet, he reported; the rest run the risk of being fined $4 for relieving themselves on nearby railroad tracks. To keep alive, boys resort to stealing, girls to prostitution. "We sleep four at the top of a bed and four at the bottom," said one inhabitant. "My uncle, my husband, my sister, myself and four children...
...book won the prestigious $1,600 Viareggio literary award, and last month the Rome Court of Appeals reversed Dolci's conviction. In complete capitulation, Palermo authorities announced a program to tear down Cascino Courtyard and the neighboring slum called Hole of Death, relocate their 1,200 inhabitants in new low-rent public housing. It was, said Italians, a victory for the poor...
Boulukos and Tangeman tried to put out the blaze with fire extinguishers but were driven back by the smoke. Firemen wearing gasmasks subdued the flames with water when they arrived about five minutes later. A window was knocked out, and flamings sofas, chairs and tables were thrown into the courtyard below...
Before he could come into his kingdom, said Barti, Rich Man Barzilai must give some proof of his faith-$1,000 in cash. The money was placed under a stone in the rabbi's courtyard; it duly disappeared and was replaced by a receipt signed by Gabriel, Michael and Raphael. Barti persuaded Barzilai to burn the receipt. It would be returned on Judgment Day, he said. And so it went for four years-another $1,000 for his royal robes, a deposit of $2,500 on a gift of $5,000 "for the Lord himself," still more...