Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gleaming white Vickers Viscount had taken off in bright moonlight from Teheran. Now, some ten hours later, escorted by a squadron of Italian jet fighters, it touched down on Rome's Ciampino airport. Wearing a blue air marshal's uniform with gold pilot's wings...
Protestant preachers in Italy have their work cut out for them. The Italian constitution of 1948 gives them the green light: "All persons have the right freely to profess their own religious faith in any individual or collective form, to proselytize on its behalf and to perform in private and in public acts of worship, provided that the rites are not contrary to public morals."* But mayors and police chiefs seem to prefer the earlier Fascist police laws of 1929 and 1930, under which non-Catholic places of worship must have permits from local authorities and non-Catholic pastors...
Last week Italy's Protestant proselytizers had some good news from the Italian equivalent of the U.S. Supreme Court. Francesco Giuseppe Rauti, 36, had quit his job as a salesman eight years ago and become a Pentecostal pastor after attending an evangelical service in Bari. He went to Crotone (pop. 40,000) on the sole of Italy's boot in 1955, and since then has managed to recruit a congregation of more than 300. When the police closed down his church in a converted apartment, Rauti carried his case to the 15-man Constitutional Court, whereupon the court...
...Italian Protestant leaders received the decision with muted satisfaction. Dr. Giorgio Peyrot, professor of ecclesiastical law at the Waldensian Theological Seminary in Rome, pointed out that there would be trouble as long as the conflicting Fascist laws were on the books...
...since the war, there has been a new movement. During World War II, when the government had to teach men French, German, Italian and other languages and had to teach them in a hurry, it was found that a far greater emphasis on actual speaking of the language was particularly effective. Tape recorders were pressed into use and men taught foreign languages by actual imitation of the sounds that they heard coming over the tape. When the war ended, Cornell was the first college to pick up this idea, using it on an experimental basis. By 1950 it had proved...