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...tattered roads in the hope that the government would pay them later; he was arrested and convicted of "invading government ground" (TIME, April 9, 1956). Most recently, in his crusade for decent housing, 33-year-old Danilo Dolci outraged official sensibilities with a book depicting the miseries of Palermo's slum dwellers...
Home & Abroad. Sicilian businessmen learned to take full advantage of their country's natural resources. Sicily's position astride shipping routes turned the port of Palermo into the Mediterranean's busiest repair center, with 5,000 new workers. New irrigation and land-reclamation schemes are making agriculture a prime source of foreign exchange, with export sales of processed fruits and vegetables rising from almost nothing in 1946 to $37 million in 1955, some $48 million last year. Much of the new industry is homegrown, but much more comes from foreign businessmen and mainland Italians who know...
...first team also included end David Moss and guard Joseph Palermo from Dartmouth, tackle Joseph Hordubay of Penn, center Donald Warburton of Brown, and halfback Robert McAniff of Cornell. Last place Columbia was the only team without a representative on the first squad...
Dartmouth's line opened holes for the backs, and the backs, running off quick openers, found them every time. Indeed, the Indians' forward unit, led by Captain Joe Palermo, was perhaps the decisive factor in the game, as only the Crimson's 220 pound tackles, Pete Briggs and Bob Shaunessy, could measure up to, and often surpass, Dartmouth's caliber of play...
Opposing the Crimson will be the only major undefeated squad in the East. Led by captain and all-America candidate Joe Palermo at left guard, Dartmouth may well be the most powerful aggregation to face the varsity this year...