Word: localizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was any point at all to politicians going through the ritual of campaigning, it was simply to whip up the enthusiasm of local professionals, charged with rounding up the vote. There was no point at all, he asserted, to political pulse-taking after the campaign had started. "It has become a stunt. Like tearing a telephone directory in two, it impresses without instructing...
With liberation, Arsolians trustfully hoped for better times. Local Communist Boss Fabio Alimonti went to Rome. Dressed in his best shiny black suit, he faced Rome's prefect. Said he: "You take our water for your benefit and spill what you don't need. The people of Arsoli cannot be left to die. Find a pump to bring life back to our hills...
...they voted Demo-Christian last spring. When the electoral results became known, local Demo-Christians told them of the government's financial difficulties and the need for patience, so the people of Arsoli modified their request. Instead of begging for a pump which would cost 12 million lire (about $21,000), they declared themselves ready to wait, so as not to throw an excessive financial burden on the government...
Travail of a Prince. In their trouble they turned where they would have turned in the Middle Ages: to the local overlords, the Massimo family. Its present representative is curly-headed, witty young Prince Vittorio Massimo. When Hannibal wiped out the Roman armies in Apulia at the Battle of Cannae, the Romans entrusted their fortunes to one Fabius Maximus, later known as Cunctator-the Delayer, because he made Hannibal chase him around Italy for eight years. He was Vittorio's ancestor. Now that the Arsolians brought him their troubles, Vittorio realized that something just as bad as Hannibal...
...idea, reluctantly approved by B.C.). Forbes is counting heavily on its snob appeal-it is designed to look impressive on boardroom tables-but figures that many a businessman will want to buy it as a gift (with his name as donor on the inside cover) for his local library. "Heavy antique stock," the prospectus brags, "will give the magazine its fine library appeal guaranteed to keep its timbre and color for a century." In four years, Malcolm hopes to get 100,000 circulation, and cut his price to a mere $100 a year...