Word: galimberti
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...Just in the past two days, in separate operations, police have made dozens of arrests on drug-trafficking charges in Calabria and Milan. Though no arrests were made in connection with the Café de Paris operation, Colonel Daniele Galimberti of the Carabinieri investigative unit says that following the money trail is a key to breaking the organization, which is largely protected by a widespread vow of silence. "They are more and more diversified," says Galimberti. "Confiscating property is one way to get them to talk." (See pictures of the dangers of printing money...
...issues of June 7, 1948 and February 21, 1949 you published photographs of Italo Renzetti, a war-maimed and blinded little Italian boy living in a colony in Rome under the care of Foster Parents' Plan for War Children. In the latter picture Italo was using a Galimberti machine (for writing Braille), which had been bought with TIME readers' contributions. I thought that you and your readers might be interested in the sequel...
...picture of an eight-year-old Italian boy, Italo Renzetti [TIME, June 7], who was blinded and left armless by a World War II hand grenade, we received many contributions from your readers* . . . We used some of the money to buy for him what is known as a Galimberti machine. [With it] Italo Renzetti, an exceptionally bright child, not only learned to write Braille, holding the stylus between his stumps, but the other day managed to "draw" an airplane, which he told our Italian representative was "for TIME Magazine...
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