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...plotting to kill her. Worried, she went to Rome's district attorney, Dr. Angelo Sigurani. She told him all she knew. She told him that she suspected Ugo Montagna of running a narcotics ring, of his frequent trips to visit the commanders of such ports as Genoa and Naples. Said La Caglio: "Sigurani listened very carefully, patted me on the shoulder and advised me to keep out of these things, and the sooner the better." Two weeks ago Dr. Sigurani tried to get the case dropped because investigation showed "the complete absence of a basis for any new charges...
Cornigliano is a study in superlatives: Italy's biggest single postwar industrial construction, its biggest steel plant, its biggest ECA project. Three years and 44 million man-hours went into building Cornigliano; just to create its 250-acre site near Genoa, a million cubic yards of rubble fill were dumped into the Ligurian Sea. Cornigliano was to vitalize Italy's struggling steel industry, help cut its production costs 40% and raise its output 75%. The goal: to make Italian steel competitive for just about the first time since the Etruscans pounded out iron for the Greek trade...
...also, therefore, a center of Communist enmity. In Genoa (which voted 43% Communist in the last election), the Red papers from the beginning criticized the plant, reported each death or injury there on Page One with black borders, and called it "The Cursed Foundry." At 7:30 on the evening of Jan. 7, in Cornigliano's big, new cold-rolling mill, a maintenance worker yelled, "Look out!" Two minutes later, with a giant crashing and a bending of massive girders, the mill's null roof lay shattered on the floor, and Italy's steel comeback...
Some blamed four inches of snow blanketing the roof, but this was not an unseasonal load, and the roof should have carried it easily. Others in Genoa's streets muttered darkly of profiteers. Last week, as investigators combed the wreckage, Cornigliano suspended all its building contractors until it determined whether bad design, faulty materials or sabotage caused the disaster. All Italy was downcast save for the Reds, who crowed that this was only what one might expect of "The Cursed Foundry...
Attacking the British. All Italy was enraged. Violence sputtered in Rome, Milan, Genoa, Naples, Bari, Messina. In Rome, U.S. Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce, returning from a call on Premier Pella, found Via Veneto, the broad street in front of the embassy, blocked by demonstrators, so that her car could not get through. Unhesitatingly, she stepped out of the car into the midst of the demonstrators and walked coolly through the crowd to the embassy. Then she offered to talk to any qualified representative of the demonstrators, but the crowd dispersed without anyone taking up the offer...