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Professor Carlo Carducci, superintendent of antiquities for Piedmont, got the idea for the show seven years ago. He and three colleagues scoured 35 museums for objects that would "highlight one of the most remarkable and least known aspects of Italian art and civilization." The show opened in Turin, went on to Bari and Naples, was on view last week in the Palazzo Reale of Milan. Its next scheduled stops: Zurich in April. Warsaw in June...
From horsy Middleburg, Va., leaked news that Jacqueline Kennedy had quietly got rid of Bit of Irish, the bay gelding that tossed her over a split-rail fence last November. Though the indefatigable First Lady has been expertly following the Piedmont Foxhounds all winter on two other steeds, she never hunted Bit of Irish again after her spill, and five weeks ago sold the unchivalrous thoroughbred for some $3,000 to Russell Arundel, chairman of the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Long Island...
...Teamster drivers. Since then, Bowman trucks have been shot at more than 70 times in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina; four drivers besides Warren have been wounded. More than 20 trucks have been fired at while laboring up a steep grade on U.S. Highway 278 near Piedmont, Ala.; it has come to be known as "Bullet Hill...
...Democratic strength. More often, reapportionment is crude. North Carolina Democrats, obliged to cut twelve districts to eleven, worked a dachshund-shaped gerrymander (a system of redistricting named after Elbridge Gerry, who, as Governor of Massachusetts in 1812, designed a legislative district in the shape of a salamander) in the Piedmont area designed to chew up lone Republican Charles Jonas...
...Passing Buck. Driving through the green, rolling Piedmont country of Taliaferro County, a visitor can go for miles without meeting another car. The county seat of Crawfordville (pop. 786) proudly preserves the house of Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy, and the white, four-faced clock on the courthouse cupola tolls the hours in perfect time. But even at high noon, Crawfordville has a ghostly air. The stores are empty. The moviehouse closed down years ago. The town dentist and doctor have moved away. This month a towel manufacturer talked of putting new life into Crawfordville by starting...