Word: romes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...helpless captivity. The Kremlin succeeded in that policy with the once great Russian Orthodox Church, and it is trying to repeat the formula. The trial of Cardinal Mindszenty was part of the operation. The persecution in Hungary was followed by efforts to split the Church in Czechoslovakia away from Rome...
...York by next New Year's Eve. If they wanted to know where to meet him, let them look in the classified ads of the New York Times for Dec. 31. Meanwhile, last week, the frustrated city boy found it impossible to stay in even stodgy old Rome...
...after serving 9½ years in prison, Lucky was deported to Italy. There, except for one abortive attempt.to reenter the U.S. by way of Cuba, he lived according to his idea of a model citizen. In one of Rome's fashionable quarters, he shared a penthouse with his blonde, toothsome, 28-year-old mistress, Igea Lissoni, a former dancer and nightclub worker. Igea attributes her good fortune to the prophecy of a Milan fortuneteller, who two years ago told her she would meet the man of her dreams in Capri. Igea hastened forthwith to Capri, and there met Lucky...
...Gentle & Kind." At Rome's Ciampino airport last month the police arrested a "businessman" from New York named Charles Vincent Trupia, who had on him 20 Ibs. of cocaine, worth a half million dollars at peddlers' prices. The police, reflecting that the drug traffic was one of Lucky's oldest loves, hauled him out of his penthouse. Day after day, they questioned him. They wanted to know about another jail suspect who claimed to have been a Luciano lieutenant. Said Lucky: "The way they talk about my 'lieutenants,' I got more than the army...
...Lercara Friddi, the humble Sicilian town where he began life, 52 years ago, as Salvatore Lucania, and which he once described as "the deadest dump in the world." The police hinted that Lucky might eventually be permitted on the mainland again, but that never again could he live in Rome...