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Whatever plan is finally picked, Livio Trevisan, director of the University of Pisa's Institute of Geology and a member of the save-the-tower committee, is convinced that quick action is needed. "Isn't it better to intervene 20 years too soon," he asks, "rather than ten minutes too late...
...posture that would obviously be unacceptable for a man with Pompidou's ambition to be Europe's primus inter pares. Nevertheless, Leone and Andreotti did manage to come up with a sort of movable Chequers that brought Pompidou to three handsome villas in the Tuscan hills near Pisa-one for a lunch with Leone, one for the "friendly and private talks," and one for a night's lodging. Pompidou did not convince the Italians (any more than he had convinced the Germans and the British) that the Common Market summit scheduled for October should establish Paris...
World War II, however, put a stop to Mary's education. During most of the war years she worked in a German hospital in Italy; when she returned home, she learned from her mother that Pound had been taken to an American "Disciplinary Training Center" near Pisa, where he was charged with treason for his broadcasts, and caged. He was not released from the American mental hospital where he had been interned on the eve of his trial until 13 years after his original arrest. Mary's own role in the international effort to free Pound was kept...
...what happened to Pound when the war ended is detailed and grim. He was arrested by two small-time crooks who had learned that there was a 500,000-lira reward for his capture. Handcuffed to an accused murderer, he was taken by Jeep to a military jail near Pisa. There, at the age of 60, he was kept like an animal in an outdoor cage, exposed to all weathers, for more than six months. He was sent to St. Elizabeths Hospital, an insane asylum in Washington, D.C. During his ordeal, Pound fought off madness and suicide by writing some...
...sensitivity, a return to basic sanity." Bailiwick's bewildering variety of candles also helps bring in customers. In addition to the plain-Jane 25? blackout specials, the store sells candles shaped like dodo birds, penguins, onions, eggs, baskets of blueberries, footballs and, at $40, the leaning tower of Pisa...