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Rome. There is real danger of a Communist victory in the Holy City. In 1952 the Christian Democrats were actually outpolled by the allied Socialist-Communist slate, but saved by the electoral law. Under fat, fumbling Mayor Salvatore Rebecchini, Rome has been plagued by tram strikes, power and water shortages. He finally withdrew as a candidate for reelection, in the face of Communist charges of corruption centering on the projected Hotel Hilton, which is yet to be erected on Rome's outskirts. The Communist candidate is Giuseppe di Vittorio, a tough Red union leader who is rated second only...
...Pope's Vicar-General was on hand to give the new Metropolitana his official blessing. Rome's Mayor Rebecchini devoted his most flowery rhetoric to the completion "of this long and arduous undertaking." Even Italy's President Luigi Einaudi turned up to enjoy the first ride. Ensconced on a seat in one of the three streamlined cars that made up the first train, Einaudi was soon joined by a rush of some 1,000 specially invited guests who crammed themselves into the train in the best Times Square rush-hour tradition, while attendants in bright red garrison...
Professor Modugno regained consciousness only long enough to forgive Giuseppe before he died. Huge bareheaded crowds turned out to watch while schoolboys carried the coffin through Rome's silent streets. At the professor's bier in the Piazza di Spagna, Mayor Salvatore Rebecchini spoke for all high-school teachers: "Be good, boys and girls, be good...
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