Word: italianize
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...politics were pitching, Caliguiri would be called sneaky fast. In 1977 maverick Mayor Peter Flaherty quit to take a job in the Carter Administration. As city council president, Caliguiri automatically became interim mayor; an Italian immigrant's son and home-town boy, he got his first city job, as he puts it, as "a grunt in the parks department." In return for six months in the municipal limelight, Caliguiri promised Democratic bosses that he wouldn't run for a full term. Or so they understood. Shortly after the primary, lifelong Party Regular Caliguiri turned uppity and declared himself...
DIED. Giuseppe Pella, 79, Italian economist who rose from sharecropper's son to the premiership, and who helped guide his country's economic policy for nearly three decades; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Rome. Resolutely antiCommunist, Pella served as Premier during a critical five-month period in 1953-54 when a border dispute with Yugoslavia over Trieste prompted him to make Italy's only postwar threat to use military force. As Foreign Minister in 1960, he once had a conversation with Nikita Khrushchev in which he rebuffed the Soviet Premier's contentions with a curt "Sorry...
...fulfill his socialist program. The harsh reality of trying to run a fragile economy will be very sobering. Said Tumlir: "We are gradually emerging from a silly political season to some better understanding of the political conditions necessary for economic prosperity. Recovery always begins with a hangover." Even Italian Communists, said Giersch, are coming to the conclusion that it is "medium-size private enterprise that is really doing the hard work and innovation, and providing the money for government expenditures...
After Italy was unified in 1861, Masonry was tolerated for more than half a century. In 1925, however, Benito Mussolini suppressed the organization. After World War II, Masons were again allowed to assemble, although anti-secrecy provisions of the new Italian constitution required that membership lists be made available to authorities upon request. Today even the church's position toward Masonic organizations appears to have mellowed. In March the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, declared that excommunication should apply only to those Catholics who belong to associations that are "truly plotting" against the church...
...Pleasant Colony is an unlikely Triple Crown candidate (he had never won an important stakes race until Aqueduct's Wood Memorial two weeks before the Derby), his trainer is more improbable still. Campo was born 43 years ago in Manhattan, the son of Italian immigrants. His destiny was sealed when his father, a tailor, moved the family to the relatively greener pasture of Ozone Park, Queens. From his classroom window at P.S. 108, young Johnny stared at Aqueduct across the street, dreams of flying hoofs and flowing silks dancing in his head. At 15 he showed...