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Nearly half of Naples came boiling into the streets one evening last week. Tatterdemalion crowds surged and shoved into the battlemented Castel Nuovo, where the kings of Anjou once ruled the kingdom of the Two Sicilies. A huge sign went with them: "For the love of your Naples, do not resign! The ship is in peril, you must stay at the helm!" The mob was out in defense of Naples' Mayor Achille Lauro, the flamboyant millionaire shipowner and Monarchist whose freewheeling administration has won him the title of Il Re del Mezzogiorno ("The King of the South...
Leaving the Castel Nuovo, the Christian Democrats passed by a long queue of Neapolitans lined up to receive the mayor's usual Christmas distribution of free spaghetti and canned tomatoes. As a political argument, it was hard to beat. Groaned a Christian Democratic politician: "It looks as if Lauro wants to move from misgoverning a city to misgoverning the nation...
...their press has shriveled to a handful of struggling newspapers with a combined circulation of barely 530,000-less than half of what L'Unita's Sunday edition alone used to command. Since 1954 four papers have been forced to shut down, including Florence's // Nuovo Corriere, which gave up one month ago. Only L'Unita, Rome's // Paese and Paese Sera and Sicily's L'Ora di Palermo survive. Even they have lost from 30% to 45% of their circulation, and L'Unita is considering folding two of its four main...
...final wartime assignment was to head up OWI in Italy and the Balkans. (While in Rome he published OWI magazines totaling 525,000 copies a month - among them the Italian "Nuovo Mundo," the Croatian "DANAS," the Serbian "AAHAC...
Gutted but not destroyed was the Castel Nuovo (probably the most imposing monument in Naples...