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...Tomaso and Anna Longo took out a loan with the Banca di Roma to buy a two-bedroom house in the fashionable Prati section near the heart of Rome. The interest was a painful 12.5%, but the Longos had little alternative, since that was about the average rate on a home mortgage in those days. Anna, a civil servant, says that life became a matter of pinching lire. "We couldn't ever go away anywhere," she recalls. "We didn't even go out to the cinema...
...same rule fed his fortune as he drained the city's malaria-breeding lowlands and on them built whole new developments such as Prati, where Rome's wealthy now dwell. It fortified him through the galling years when he repaired and built streets in Rome, ports in Sicily and roads of African conquest at Mussolini's whim. One day Mussolini called him to his Palazzo Venezia, said: "I can't see the Colosseum from my window." Replied Vaselli: "There's a hill in the way. Give me an order and I'll remove...
This fall, with new courts, all but two of last year's Varsity, plus some promising new talent, Barnaby is seeing his long-range plans begin to bear fruit. Top-seeded Ted Backe is back, as are Bill Wightman, Steve Prati, and Howio Swartzman, all dependable in last spring's battles...
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