Word: garibaldis
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...wall of the public registrar's office in the village of Campogalliano (5½ miles off the main road from Modena to Bologna), hangs a large portrait of Garibaldi. From under beetling brows, the old revolutionary soldier looks down on two municipal workers: Ostilio Iotti, 26, whose wife is rich but not pretty, and Santina Caffani, a widow of 30 or more. Together they keep the village records and accounts. Last summer a rumor sprang up that Ostilio and Santina were more to each other than coworkers; the sofa in the registrar's office was often mentioned...
...Ostilio and Santina. A few weeks ago the Communists brought from Modena the official party photographer, Mario Botti. He set up his camera in the room adjoining the registrar's office, drilled a hole through the wall, pierced the portrait so that the camera lens peered through Garibaldi...
After three days of waiting, Photographer Botti got what he had been told to get, or so he said. A click of the camera caused Ostilio to look up. He noticed what he later described as "a strange twinkle in Garibaldi's eye." Ostilio and Santina rushed into the next room, as the photographer and two town councillors fled...
...Anita Garibaldi, 60, granddaughter of General Giuseppe Garibaldi, and a namesake of the great liberator's Brazilian wife, enrolled at Naples' Oriental Institute to get a degree qualifying her to teach English in Rome's high schools...
Died. General Giuseppe ("Peppino") Garibaldi, 70, grandson and namesake of Italy's famed, red-shirted Liberator, onetime ardent antiFascist, author (A Toast to Rebellion); in Rome. A soldier in six wars, Garibaldi, at 23, led 3,000 Venezuelan rebels against Dictator Cipriano Castro, later became Francisco Madero's chief of staff in the Mexican revolution of 1910-11, organized an Italian Legion to fight for France in World War I. At first violently opposed to the Black Shirts, he eventually shifted his allegiance to Mussolini during the Ethiopian campaign but was put into jail by the Nazis during...