Word: piedmonte
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...match the lavish campaign efforts of its bigger rivals. To compensate, hard-driving Giovanni Malagodi has taken up a device foreign to Italian politics-the whistle-stop tour. Since last October, traveling alone, he has spoken, rain or shine, in hundreds of cities, towns and villages from Sicily to Piedmont. In the process, his level, rasping voice has won more attention than that of any other Italian politician...
Lost Viewpoint. Virtually every major U.P. paper in the South ran Kuettner's series; South Carolina's segregationist Greenville Piedmont gave it an eight-column top-of-the-banner headline. To most editors. Al Kuettner's byline was the story's best recommendation. He has amassed 45 file drawers on racial problems since spotting desegregation as a looming battle in 1945, roamed 3,600 miles through the South in 1956 to write a series on integration that won him Sigma Delta Chi's top award for general reporting...
Businessman La Cavera knows that Sicily has a long way to go. Sicily's per capita income is still woefully low at $175 annually (v. $470 in Italy's industrial region of Piedmont); many thousands of unemployed still eke out a bare existence, eating lumache ed erbe (snails and greens) gathered in the woods. But Sicily has hope and enterprise for the first time in. centuries. "It doesn't require miracles," says La Cavera. "All it takes is will and work, intelligence and initiative. In ten years, we'll catch up with the rest of Italy...
...Premier of pre-Mussolini Italy, and it is still remembered that "under Giolitti 100 lire in paper was worth 101 in gold." Young Antonio, brought up under Fascism, became a Communist in 1940, organized the famed partisan Garibaldi division during the war, was badly wounded fighting in his native Piedmont mountains. Trading on his war record (and his grandfather's name), he was a great vote-getter and a comer in Communist politics. "Piedmont always votes for Giolitti," said the Communist posters, and the Piedmont...
...outgrowth of a heretical sect founded in France by rich Merchant Peter Waldo in 1176, which moved to the Piedmont Alps and became Protestant early in the Reformation...