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Excitement pulsated through the city of Trieste as men, women and children streamed into the Piazza, dell' Unità. By 2 in the afternoon, more than 15,000 had packed into the square, beneath two giant, freshly painted red pylons built to fly huge flags of Italy and the city. Sidewalk vendors did a brisk business in tiny flags and miniature hats of the Bersaglieri, the Italian elite troops who were the first to occupy Trieste after Austria's defeat in 1918. At three minutes after 2, a voice boomed from the city hall balcony the news...
Triestini had long been pictured as fearful of the economic losses that would follow the withdrawal of U.S. and British forces. But the worry was not in evidence in the Piazza dell' Unita. The crowd irrupted in a fervor of patriotism. Some oldsters broke down in tears. Youths began chanting, "Italia! Italia!" and voices were raised in the refrain of Brothers of Italy and Hymn of the Piave...
Born. To Marguerite Piazza, thirtyish, onetime Metropolitan Opera soprano turned TV songstress, and her third husband, William James Condon, 43, Memphis snuff-company executive: their first child (her third), a daughter. Name: Shirley. Weight...
...workman's allegiance, he is also the tough-minded Interior Minister who in 1948 cowed Italy's rioting Reds with his jeep-riding celere. Last week, as Scelba prepared to ask the Senate and Chamber to confirm his new government, the Communists took after him in the piazza and in Parliament...
Only a short stroll from the smart shops of famed Piazza di Spagna begins Via Margutta, one of Rome's most remarkable streets. It is shabby, narrow, and lined by drab, ocher-colored buildings. Not until a visitor pushes through any of a dozen open archways into a maze of courtyards, stone stairs and quiet, hidden gardens, is the secret of the street revealed. For here live some of Italy's most colorful artists, their names often scrawled on rickety doors. Via Margutta has been the Roman artists' quarter since the 16th century Today, in the center...