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Five years ago the Italian Tricolor flapped proudly in a fresh sea breeze from thousands of windows and rooftops of Trieste. Quick-marching into the Piazza dell' Unità, beplumed Bersaglieri were hard put to it to clear a path through the delirious crowd of 250,000 that shook the vast square with endless roars of "Viva l'Italia! Viva Trieste Italiana!" Thus, after nine postwar years as a "free territory," the citizens of the Adriatic port city of Trieste deliriously greeted their reunion with Italy...
...Gaetano Bedini, who visited the U.S. in 1853-54 as special papal legate. Undeterred by an assassination plot hatched by anti-Catholic fanatics during his U.S. tour, Bedini asked the Holy See to furnish land and buildings, U.S. bishops to provide funds. Quartered in a converted convent on Via dell'Umilta (Humility Street), the school opened hopefully in 1859 with twelve students from seven states (three of the twelve later became archbishops). Pope Pius IX came himself for Mass, Communion and breakfast (including ice cream and punch); delighted students gave three rousing cheers for George Washington and three more...
...Crimson team compiles a 15-2 record and still considers its season a bit of a disappointment, chances are that one of those losses was to Yale. This was the case with this spring's varsity tennis team, which found the Elis, led by Davis Cup nominee Donald Dell, just a little too tough to handle...
...Eastern League race shapes up as a repetition of the past two years, with no one likely to offer the Crimson and Yale much competition. The Elis, although they will have Dell, Gene Scott and Wallace back, lose Tom Freiberg, Jon Clark, and Sandy Wiener (two, three and five). They have one excellent freshman prospect in Mike Neely...
...With Dell out, Yale was able to salvage only a second-place tie with M.I.T. in the team race. They each had 20 points to the Crimson...