Word: romes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rome, Ambassador James C. Dunn tried to make the best case he could for U.S. democracy. He pointed to U.S. generosity with money and supplies. But Washington gave no public sign that it would back the De Gasperi government up to the hilt against any attempted Communist coup. And yet a victory for Communism in Italy would mean that the cold war, which the U.S. once thought it was winning, would get uncomfortably warm...
...Church of Rome last week stepped up its crusade to save Italy from going Communist in next month's election. Said Pope Pius (addressing 1,500 streetcar motormen and conductors): "The doctrine of Christian truth and faith is irreconcilable with materialistic maxims. . . ." Proclaimed the Catholic Action Committee: ". . . It is the hour of the great battle for Christ or against Christ...
...Rome's operagoers remember Giuseppe Di Stefano as the handsome young tenor who sang Manon one night when terrible-tempered Tenor Lauri-Volpi fitfully refused to go on. But even before that, Di Stefano had gotten ovations that reached the ears of U.S. booking agents...
...student at the University of Padua (he estimates that he has talked to a round total of 4,000,000 people). His favorite authors are the two great Catholic mystics, Saint Teresa of Avila and Saint John of the Cross, and in his tiny, bare, blue-walled room in Rome's Via Ripetta he spends most of his time praying. During his travels he tries to keep himself always "in communion with...
...There (Sun. 2 p.m., CBS). An Ides of March special, from the network's "Rome Bureau": the assassination of Julius Caesar...