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...pampas town of Lobos, Perón never longed to become a farmer like his father. At an early age, he chose a military career. As a military observer in Europe in the late '30s and early '40s, he became spellbound by both Hitler and Mussolini. After meeting Hitler, Perón wrote: "As in Germany, our future will be an inflexible dictatorship." When il Duce died, he said: "Mussolini was the greatest man of our century...
...often suggested to meet these requirements is to freeze the soft soil under the foundation. But engineers point out that such a move might only shift the load to lower levels of subsoil that are even softer and more likely to give way. Others, unaware of Mussolini's unsuccessful attempt, suggest injecting concrete or plastics into the ground. Then there is what seems to be the more practical plan of M.I.T. Aerospace Engineer Yao Tzi Li, who proposed ringing the tower's base with buried concrete pads. Connected to the tower by a network of trusses, the pads...
Small wonder then that Matucci feels badly used by his superiors. His most entertaining manipulator is the Salamander himself-an old, immensely rich fairy Godfather. Like the legendary salamander who lives in flame, he has survived the fires of illegitimacy and Mussolini's Fascism with his lizard's skin unscathed. The Salamander does for West's story what the wolf does for the tale of Red Riding Hood. As a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, The Salamander will be widely sold, but it reads like a mere shadow between West's conception and the inevitable...
...words seemed to convey the utmost reasonableness. There was none of the jut-jawed belligerence of a Duce, none of the menacing rhetoric of a swaggering martinet. In fact, an ironic, Pirandellian sense of split realities was inescapable. Here was a former functionary of Benito Mussolini's last government denouncing the "totalitarian" ways of contemporary Italy...
...M.S.I, a Fascist organization? "We do not intend to separate ourselves from the movement of history," Almirante answered carefully. "I am inspired neither by Fascism nor by antiFascism. If Mussolini were alive today and said the things he used to say, he would make the Italians laugh." However, added Almirante, "if he were alive today, he would be a postFascist like me, and he would say different things. Everything has changed. Do you want me to appear on the balcony and exhort the country to go to war? That's laughable now. But I do not spit on that...