Word: palermo
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...planner and combat leader in World War IPs North African and Italian campaigns; of leukemia; in Washington. After the Sicily landing, Keyes led a makeshift provisional corps 200 miles straight across the island's mountainous interior in only three days. He caught the Germans by surprise at Palermo and captured that vital seaport almost without a shot...
...combat, perhaps unequaled before or since. In the field, they enjoyed it when the odds were at least 20 to 1-against them. Espionage, reconnaissance, subversion, psychological warfare-they knew and practiced all these supposedly modern martial stratagems. To "psych" his adversaries before the siege of Palermo, the Norman commander, Roger de Hauteville, released a flock of captured carrier pigeons-after tying to their legs scraps of cloth soaked in Saracen blood...
Died. Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini, 79, Archbishop of Palermo, Sicily, since 1945 and one of the most conservative of Roman Catholic prelates, a handsome, ascetic man who in 1959 spoke glowingly of Franco's Spain while threatening to excommunicate anyone who voted for Communist-backed candidates in Sicily's local elections, then was one of the leading conservative spokesmen within the Vatican Council, opposing the schema of religious liberty, liturgical reform, modern Biblical criticism, the declaration clearing the Jews of guilt for the Crucifixion; of a heart attack; in Palermo...
This picture of ritual life and death on an American fashion magazine brightens the pages of Ouhlier Palerme (To Forget Palermo), the novel that last week won France's celebrated Prix Goncourt. Though a colleague claims that the author "really saw this happen in New York," Edmonde Charles-Roux herself denies that Fair is a takeoff on Vogue, which employed her for 16 years. Curiously, the French lady was fired five months ago as editor of the French edition of Vogue, not for her macabre writing but, so she says, because she had argued that...
...leggy New York career girl and Fair staffer who marries an Italian-American political boss and goes with him to Sicily, where women have a considerably different role from the one she is accustomed to. The narrator is Gianna, another Fair lady who is fleeing an unhappy past in Palermo. She is shocked to find that the magazine invokes "the phantom of beauty" only to justify "the worst kind of commercialism"-catering to its readers' feminine whims...