Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With election day only three weeks off, the fog of political oratory shrouded the Italian peninsula. In one 24-hr, period last week Italy was subjected to no less than 20,000 campaign speeches. To some of the candidates it seemed that the bulk of these had been delivered by a single man: brilliant, persuasive Liberal Party Leader Giovanni Malagodi...
...which has a proud past, is today one of the smallest (13 seats) in Italy's Chamber of Deputies, cannot muster sufficient money or manpower to match the lavish campaign efforts of its bigger rivals. To compensate, hard-driving Giovanni Malagodi has taken up a device foreign to Italian politics-the whistle-stop tour. Since last October, traveling alone, he has spoken, rain or shine, in hundreds of cities, towns and villages from Sicily to Piedmont. In the process, his level, rasping voice has won more attention than that of any other Italian politician...
...general manager of Milan's giant Banca Commerciale Italiana at 29-stocky Giovanni Malagodi rose to secretary-general of the party within two years. Ignoring the siren calls from left and far right, Malagodi and his colleagues hammered out a Liberal platform that, almost alone in Italian politics, opposes both private and state monopoly, and favors free play for free enterprise...
...color is smeared across the screen with a garbage glare, the dialogue is dubbed in from the original Italian, and the small-scale spectacle comes to a limp conclusion as Attila repents and rides back to the Danube with a white cross burning in the sky. But it is escape...
...Rome, Cardinal Stritch was rushed to Sanatrix Clinic. Telegrams poured in from all over the world. To consult with the Italian doctors, two U.S. physicians flew to Rome without waiting to get their passports in order. At the Cardinal's bedside, they concurred in the diagnosis: a block-probably a clot-in a major artery of his right arm. This week the doctors agreed on a drastic recourse: amputation of the Cardinal...