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There was no mistaking the sex of the great Wilma Rudolph, who was a young mother when she won the 100, the first of her three gold medals, at the Rome Olympics in 1960. She in turn passed the baton to another Tennessee State runner, Wyomia Tyus, who won in both '64 and '68 to become the first runner, man or woman, to win an Olympic sprint twice. African-American women have also won the past three 100s: Evelyn Ashford in '84, the flamboyant Florence Griffith-Joyner in '88 and Gail Devers...
...your way to the MFA, take an interesting detour at the world headquarters of the First Church of Christ Scientist (T: Symphony, green line). The nineteenth century Mother Church is to the Christian Scientists what St. Peter's in Rome is to Catholics...
...side, then we would sail our ship. We would have Happy Hour every hour and it wouldn't be predicated upon alcohol. We would hike in the Andes mountains full time, or spend our total effort working to help the indigent in Calcutta, or continually enjoying roasted goat in Rome...
Naval investigators launched White Stallion in May 1995 after two sailors based in Naples were arrested as they arrived at the Rome airport with 6 kg of Turkish heroin, expecting, as military personnel, not to be searched by customs. The sailors turned out to be couriers for Nigerians plying the Golden Crescent heroin trail. That route begins in the opium fields of Afghanistan, runs through refineries in Turkey and then the wholesaling hubs of Italy and terminates in needle parks throughout Western Europe...
...ROME: Hours before he was due to testify in a trial of a former Nazi officer, a key prosecution witness broke his pelvis Friday trying to flee. The witness, former SS Major Carl Hass, had volunteered to testify against former SS Major Erich Priebke, who is accused of executing 335 civilians in caves near Rome in 1944. Hass, 84, who fell while trying to climb over the terrace outside his second-story hotel room in Rome, is in stable condition and has agreed to testify from his hospital bed on Wednesday. The desperate escape attempt raised questions about...