Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Catholic parents-but on the condition that they do nothing to shake her new Protestant faith. After her conversion last fall, her parents had threatened to put Maura in a convent, whereupon she was smuggled out of Belfast and into England. There a kind of Protestant underground railroad shifted her from hideout to hideout until, two weeks ago. she turned up at the Belfast home of a Presbyterian pastor. He turned her over to the police, who took her to a welfare home to await a hearing. Lord John Clarke MacDermott, Northern Ireland's Lord Chief Justice, declaring...
...claim to be walking in the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi drive big foreign cars, surround themselves with red-liveried lackeys, command private railroad cars, scratch like fishwives for the trappings of pomp and prestige. Nehru recently penned a sharp note to several state ministers warning them to get rid of their retainers and private railroad cars. "Even President Eisenhower," wrote the Pandit, "drives about the countryside without flags all over...
Under the Shower. Pinza developed into one of opera's giants with scarcely any formal musical training. At an age when some singers are already getting launched, he was working as a professional bicycle racer and a brakeman on an Italian railroad. The seventh child of a poor carpenter, he was brought up in Ravenna, considered a career in civil engineering before he turned to racing, in which he had only middling success. He was standing under the shower one day singing O Sole Mio when the cyclist in the stall next to him told him that...
Departure & Arrival. The hour of Wyszynski's departure for Rome had not been announced, but word spread quickly through the city, and by the time he arrived at the railroad station a large crowd packed the platform, weeping and cheering. Women brought flowers, jars of soup and freshly baked cakes for the journey. "May you live 100 years," they chanted, and when the train finally pulled out people still strained to kiss the cardinal's ring as he leaned from the window...
...easier on the dollar than France, although prices are 7% above last season's. This year Italy expects 750,000 American visitors, 10% more than last year's record. To house them, 1,278 new hotels or pensions have opened in the past year, and airports and railroad stations throughout the peninsula will list every local hotel on an electric board (red lights for a full house, green lights for vacancies). For motorists, the Italian Auto Club has opened 16 autostelli motels ($6 a night...