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...floors to warm their chimneyless, smoke-blackened houses. When party organizers moved in after the war, Communism took Castelpoto with a rush-even to the local branch of Catholic Action, whose leader, Costanzo Savoia, became mayor on the Communist ticket. This situation, church authorities decided, called for Don Domenico's soft eyes and strong jaw. For Don Domenico, 46, had acquired fame of a sort by having won his most recent parish-a village not unlike Castelpoto-away from Communism with a well-balanced combination of good works and strong words...
When the new priest trudged up the hill to Castelpoto, accompanied by two armed policemen, his parishioners were waiting for him in the town square, jeering and yelling: "Get out! We don't want you. Go back where you came from!" Don Domenico Scapatici shrugged, smiled and gave them his blessing. But later he said: "It was the most terrible day of my life...
...dilapidated shoes repaired. "He has holes in his shoes like us,'' some people said approvingly. At night, on his battered portable, he wrote letters for the illiterate, appeals to provincial authorities, pension applications for old soldiers. More and more people began to bring Don Domenico their problems. Some of them even began showing up for Mass...
Three weeks after he arrived, Hungary hit the world's headlines, but there were no headlines in Castelpoto. Don Domenico went to a nearby town, rented four loudspeakers and a public-address system for $15 a month. He set up the speakers in the Church of the Madonna's crumbling brick campanile and turned up the power loud enough to be heard five miles away. Then he set to work with high-decibel hymns, prayers and sermons...
...Riesel attack, according to FBI agents, had been planned last Easter when Dio called a meeting in a lower Manhattan candy store, announced that he needed someone to toss some acid. Storekeeper Gondolfo Miranti relayed the request to Bakeryman Domenico Bando, who sought out Joseph Carlino. Carlino dredged up Hungry Hoodlum Abraham Telvi to carry out the attack. Telvi was given a bottle of sulphuric acid, stationed on a Manhattan side street and told to await a Mr. Marshall, whose wife wanted him burned because he was unfaithful. Go Between Miranti shadowed Riesel to Lindy's Restaurant, spotted...