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QUESTION: In your first book Gli Antipatici (The Obnoxious)--which was retitled The Egotists in the English translation--you said: "I am not famous, and consequently I am not antipatica." Now you have become famous, in Italy, in America, in high places, aren't you afraid that you, too, may have become obnoxious and egotistical...
Back home in Italy they are dubbed Gli Insabbiati - literally, "buried in the sand." Abroad, some 25,000 expatriate engineers, surveyors, carpenters, me chanics and truck drivers have helped make Italy a major force in the rich, ruggedly competitive field of interna tional construction. The Gli Insabbiati started with projects in the deserts of North Africa - hence their nickname -but now they are spreading around the world. More and more, they resemble the Caesars' legions, who two millennia ago built highways, aqueducts and cities from Scotland to Syria...
Lately, prosperity has begun to trim profit margins. Wages for the Gli Insabbiati are gradually rising; an Italian engineer abroad earns about $10,000 yearly in wages and fringes, a truck driver about $5,000. Moving beyond Africa also means higher costs for employers. Not the least of the problems is that the contractors stand to lose many of the hard-working desert veterans, who have a habit of settling where the job takes them. Cogefar, another Milan company, is about to begin a $56 million tunnel-boring job for a hydroelectric plant on New Zealand's Tongariro River...
...this crime against humanity take place." Above it was a macabre drawing of two electric chairs in which, side by side, sat the Rosenbergs, holding hands. Across France they were portrayed as "peace partisans," condemned because they opposed Washington plans to war on Russia. In Italy they were "Gli Innocenti" (The Innocents), whose two young children (5 and 9) would be made orphans, and Rome's Communist L'Unitá compared them to Dreyfus, Zola, Sacco and Vanzetti, and John Brown...
...squad started to experiment with new plays and formations yesterday and will concentrate on polishing them up in the next three afternoons. The varsity scrimmaged with Bob Margarita's freshmen both offensively and defensively. Bob Hardy and Art French, former injury victims, returned to action. Dusty Burke, Gli O'Neil, John Tulonko, and Jerry Blitz formed the backfield in the offensive scrimmage...