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...through from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, and it was Eugénie's own cousin, Ferdinand de Lesseps, who had seen the job through. To celebrate the opening, the Khedive had brought together 500 of the best cooks and 1,000 servants from Marseille, Trieste and Genoa. For the diversion of the expected guests, an open-air opera house had been built near the Great Pyramid; corps de ballet and singers by the dozen were imported, and the great Verdi commissioned to write an opera. (He responded with Aïda, but alas, two years too late...
...over the Red north, riots flared. North-south railroads were dynamited in four places. In Genoa, workers joined forces with armed ex-partisans, took several carabinieri prisoners, captured armored cars, posted guns on rooftops, seized the power plant and plunged the city into darkness. In Turin, 30 industrial executives were held as hostages. In Abbadia San Salvatore, in Tuscany, two regiments of government artillery were required to repel workers attacking the nation's main telephone center. At week's end 20 police and rioters were dead and more than 200 were injured...
After 56 years the Italian Socialist Party had returned to its birthplace, Genoa's 16th Century Palazzo Ducale. Its drafty corridors bore the scent of political decay. Had Italian Socialism, corrupted by its alliance with the Communists, come home to die? Its leaders said not-but their expostulations carried little conviction, even to one another. Last week, the evidence of death was strong enough to warrant interment...
...Lightship for last week's long 635-mile thrash to Bermuda, the wind veered into the northeast. It blew harder as the night wore on. At dawn, Baruna's crew began shortening sail; the jigger was doused and later the mainsail was taken in. With only a Genoa jib set, she boiled along ahead of 35 rival ocean racers...
...have undertaken to organize a labor migration. France and Italy will go into the market as one unit to buy essential imports. Together they will try to build up markets for their export industries. A committee is working out ways to share port trade between the two great rivals, Genoa and Marseille...