Word: mario
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Immediate Goals. Retaining his post as head of the new government, post-war Italy's 23rd, Fanfani reshuffled his previous Cabinet to eliminate Christian Democrats who opposed the controversial apertura. Leading absentee, ex-Interior Minister Mario Scelba, whose steel-helmeted riot police put down many a Red demonstration. Three seats, including the Ministry of the Treasury, went to Giuseppe Saragat's anti-Communist Social Democrats; moderate leftist Republicans received two portfolios, including the important Ministry of the Budget, which is responsible for long-range economic planning. To balance the shift leftward in domestic affairs, Fanfani kept on notable...
...elder daughter, is the only one of the four who attempts to rise on the social ladder. Like Manuel, she finished grade school, but she goes on for two years of commercial training. In all her jobs, however, her bosses try to seduce her; it is a coworker, Mario, to whom she gives herself, but she does not love him. Her efforts to raise herself to bourgeois respectability make her an outcast at home, while her attractiveness to hungry employers makes her feel unable to continue working...
...shape, and there are ten times as many schoolteachers as members of the 1,200-man Civil Guard, the republic's only armed force. But Costa Rica has known sieges of political fury. In the past few months, as the country prepared to choose a successor for President Mario Echandi, there were growing fears of another civil war like the one that cost 1,300 lives...
...toppled. Three men crashed to the ground and lay sickeningly still. The other three men caught the girl and clung to the wire, holding her by her wrists until an improvised net was spread out below. Of the three who fell, two were killed, including Dieter Schepp. The third, Mario Wallenda, had a fractured skull and was not expected to live...
...delegates from across the hemisphere examined complaints of violation of press freedom, nation by nation. The newsmen found faint stirrings of editorial liberty in the Dominican Republic following the assassination of Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. They noted the arrest and brief jailing of TIME'S Chile Correspondent Mario Planet for two stories (TIME. June 23. Aug. 25) deemed disturbing to Chile's tranquillity. Cuba, Paraguay and Haiti were listed as "countries where there is no freedom of the press"-but the most alarming of these was clearly Cuba...