Word: rome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cash award of $1500 is attached to these citations by the two institutes. Layton is a composer of orchestral, choral and chamber music. He was graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music and has since studied at the American Academy in Rome, under a three-year fellowship...
...first, voters of Reggio Emilia's deeply Red 13th district were flattered to have so important a personage as la Compagna as one of their Deputies in Rome. They voted her into Parliament in 1948 and 1953 by handy margins. But as the years passed and Nilde lived high on the remote Sacred Mountain, local Red leaders began to grumble: she spent too much time in Rome and neglected her own people. Legally married Communist wives resented Nilde's special position. Scurrilous jokes circulated about the affair of Togliatti, now 65, and Nilde, 38. And there...
When 50-year-old Umberto Righetti, a pastor of the Evangelical Church, rented a second-floor apartment in the 15th century baronial palace of Fondi (pop. 19,000), 75 miles south of Rome, nobody told him about the door. In his two-room apartment he conducted Protestant religious services twice a week, and soon had a flock of 500. He started a free Bible school for 70 children, some of whom had been attending the local Roman Catholic parochial school. In heavily Catholic Italy all this was distressing news to the parish priest. Don Pietro Santanto-nio. "Go away, leave...
...proviso that the door of what was now Righetti's apartment must be sealed off. The owner of Righetti's apartment had in turn sought permission to cut another door into the courtyard, but because the palace was a national monument, the Ministry of Fine Arts in Rome had forbidden it. Now, after eight years, a Rome court had ordered the door sealed off, and Righetti would have to leave. It was the law, they said, and had nothing to do with his Protestantism...
...lease three Super Constellations (and crews) from Seaboard & Western. Austria recently flew into the big time with a line prepared to go anywhere except where it is needed. Using four chartered Viscounts, Austrian Airlines will soon be serving such major-and well-served-cities as London, Zurich, Paris, Frankfurt, Rome and Warsaw. Yet the line has no service in Austria itself, which lacks an internal airline and badly needs...