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...symposium, George M. Fredrickson '56, William G. Dakin '57, Luigi R. Einaudi '57, David A. Horgan '56, Terence S. Turner '57, and a sixth student still to be chosen will speak on their own interpretations of academic freedom. Brady said that conservative, liberal, and middle-of-the-road views will receive equal representation...
Political Career: After the war, he became a teacher of Italian at a technical school, helped found Don Luigi Sturzo's Popular Party (forerunner of the Christian Democrats). Elected to Parliament in 1919, he served briefly in Mussolini's first government, but when Mussolini began to show his iron hand, Gronchi resigned. Barred from teaching because he refused to take the Fascist oath of allegiance, he became a salesman, first of neckties, then of American-made paints, worked his way up and ended as owner of a prosperous synthetic-varnish factory...
...President: Succeeding the first President of the Italian Republic, old (81), mild Luigi Einaudi, who contented himself with cornerstone laying and self-effacement, Gronchi has attempted to build up the prestige and power of the presidency. He has stepped up pomp and circumstance of the Quirinal Palace itself, which is guarded by 120 of the most imposing soldiers in Italy, the 6-ft.-6-in. cuirassiers. Has made more speeches and covered more miles in his first nine months than Einaudi did in seven years. In contrast to Einaudi, he accepts petitions, receives delegations, summons government ministers to discuss their...
...lean, soldierly man who rises promptly at 6 a.m. for a two-hour walk before breakfast and surprises the Riviera crowd by never setting foot in the local bistros. For the past three years, Kazantzakis has been a front-running candidate for the Nobel Prize. Like Italian Playwright Luigi Pirandello, a past Nobel winner, and Spanish Philosopher Ortega y Gasset, he is far from the operatic Mediterranean type; with them, he shares a dry, winy brilliance of mind. Under the harsh sun of Crete, neither brooding Teutonic mysticisms nor romantic self-deceptions can survive. The pages of a Kazantzakis novel...
...reverberations of Sunday's palace coup echo through the streets of Buenos Aires, the shouts of students are undoubtedly among the loudest voices supporting the democratic elements which replaced General Lonardi's provisional government. For according to Luigi Einaudi '57, returned from Argentina, students have played, and will continue to play, a significant role in transforming the one-time police state into a democracy...