Word: ils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that men should know him intimately"), made emptiness of the soul his province with his bleak rendering (1931) of Gog ("Is not bread perhaps the only thing that nourishes man, the only truth in the world?"). Long after his return to Roman Catholicism, Papini could still write hopefully in il Diavolo (1953): "Theological treatises will continue to say no to the doctrine of a total and final reconciliation [between God and the Devil], but the heart, which 'has reasons which reason knows not of,' will go on yearning for and expecting the answer...
Behind the Art. That was how things stood on May 17, when a disgruntled Zurich lawyer named Bruno Greuter told a reporter from Rome's conservative Il Tempo a startling story. Back in 1951, said Greuter, his friend Reale dropped in at his office, said he was tired of political life, and asked for help in setting up a little import-export business in art objects. Greuter arranged to sell him the stock of an acquaintance's long-moribund holding company, Terbita. But far from quitting public life, Reale got elected to the Italian Senate, and sent...
Much of this has been known to the Italian police since 1953, when the Swiss deported D'Allessandri and his assistants, and sent their findings to Rome. After Il Tempo's reporter got his story, some action followed at last. Italian police arrested 24 men in Milan and charged them with "conspiracy with foreigners against the national interest." One was D'Allessandri. In Rome, Communist ex-Senator Reale continued to enjoy his singular immunity, and insisted he had done nothing wrong. Said he: "I'm not taking this seriously...
...Cairo newspapers blossomed out last week with identical figures on what Egypt is getting from Communist Czechoslovakia: 200 MIG-15 fighters, 50 IL-28 twin-jet bombers; 200 heavy tanks, six submarines and torpedo boats. Four-fifths of this equipment was said to have been delivered already. Western sources think the figures inflated, particularly the MIG total...
Egyptian forces are "working day and night seven days a week" learning to use new Stalin tanks, MIG fighters and IL-28 jet bombers, Amer announced last week. But Western military observers think that many months must pass before the Egyptians can master their new weapons...