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Time & Eternity. A new committee was formed for the administration of the remaining funds. It was called "The Clock Committee." It discovered that there was only one man who could fix the clock at a reasonable price-a Fiumicinian who worked wonders with all machinery, by the name of Giordano Bruno Rocchi. But he was a violent anticlerical who would not do any work for the "priest-ridden Clock Committee." So the leftists formed their own "Citizens' Committee" for repairing the clock, and one dark stormy night, they spirited the clock's works to Rocchi's tiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: A Clock for Fiumicino | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

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