Word: pietro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps the most unusual method of recalling the date of a subscription came from a woman in Manhattan, who was looking over some copies of TIME many years ago. She writes: "I came across an item about . . . Sculptor Pietro Montana. I cut out the article and gave it to Pietro Montana, whom I had recently met. He had not seen the account when it was published, and he was amazed at TIME'S definite information and its exact way of stating facts...
...dinner hour one quiet evening last week, Demo-Christian Deputy Oscar Scalfaro stood up in the Italian Chamber of Deputies and made a motion: let the House sit seven days a week to speed debate on the government's electoral reform bill. Up popped Socialist Fellow Traveler Pietro Nenni to cry: "The majority is attempting a coup." Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti, discarding his usual pose of blue-serge respectability, shouted: "This isn't a Parliament. It is a bivouac of priests." From the right came the reply: "Go back to your Soviet Parliament, Togliatti. Your game will...
When Italy's Left-Wing Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni visited Moscow last July, he was granted a rare privilege: a personal interview with Stalin. Back home, Nenni became the first salesman to peddle the Kremlin's bright new line of peace goods. He offered it first to shrewd, 71-year-old Premier Alcide de Gasperi. When DeGasperi refused even to finger the wares from Moscow, Nenni last week took them to the floor of Italy's Chamber of Deputies...
Joseph Stalin's followers (and sometimes his enemies) hang on his every word as the pronouncement of a major oracle. Last summer Italy's fellow-traveling Socialist Pietro Nenni went to Moscow to pick up his Stalin Peace Prize (worth $25,000), and got one of the rare invitations to talk with the oracle himself. On his return, Nenni glowingly reported that Stalin wants only peace, and that if Russia is allowed to keep what she took after World War II, Stalin will be satisfied...
With Elaine, back in Italy, "the drums . . . rolled into one prolonged gigantic thunder." Perhaps partly to get away from all this racket, Pietro goes on the fifth Crusade, where he is captured by the Saracens and meets Zenobia. "To such a one, he thought . . . every thousand years the ribald gods give such a form in order to drive...