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Next problem for Sir Gavin was to decide which pass was crossed by Hannibal. Old accounts say that from its summit, the invading Carthaginians could see the plains of Piedmont. This ruled out all except three passes. To pick the one that Hannibal took, Sir Gavin used ancient evidence that the army found new snow in the pass and also old snow from the preceding year. Climatological data, based on pollen grains found in ocean-bottom mud, prove that the climate of Europe in Hannibal's time was slightly warmer than it is today. This being the case, only...
...discovered that Moscatelli had served only five years in jail, after which he was kept under a form of "house arrest" that apparently permitted him considerable freedom. Why? II Tempo supplied the answer by publishing a facsimile of a groveling letter written by Moscatelli to the Fascist authorities in Piedmont: "I have done much wrong to the fatherland and to the Fascist regime. Today I am glad and proud to be able to declare that I, with a spontaneity beyond any suspicion and an impulse springing from soul-searching sincerity, am determined to reject those Marxist conceptions which Fascist reality...
Born 51 years ago in a sharecropper's cottage near Biella in the Piedmont, Pella was so bright in school that his parents were relieved of school taxes. Papa and Mamma Pella worked days and nights in a Piedmont spinning mill to send their only child on to the University of Turin (finance and economics) and into the business world. At 30 he commanded big fees as a consultant to the Piedmont textile industry. He went to Rome in 1946 as a parliamentary deputy; a year later Luigi Einaudi, now Italy's President, took him into the Finance...
...anti-Walter factions feel they have good reason for their stand. Not only has the president taken "tainted" money, he has also all but destroyed the college. Of Piedmont's 30-man faculty, 28 teachers have either resigned or been fired; so have eleven trustees. Meanwhile, enrollments have dropped from 290 to 109, and last fall only about 30 new students showed up as freshmen. Even the town of Demorest (pop. 1,166) has joined in the protest. Last May the town council unanimously passed a resolution demanding "the removal of James E. Walter from our midst...
...tain't enough." Last week Walter could boast of having the board's backing again: at its year-end meeting, it gave him a vote of "appreciation for outstanding services." But Walter's latest outstanding service was going to be a bitter pill for Piedmont. Last week, as parents and alumni gathered for the commencement exercises, they faced the bleak news that the Congregational Board of Home Missions had disowned the college, sent letters to its churches freeing them from any obligation to contribute to Piedmont. From now on, without the churches' steady support, President Walter...