Word: romes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women went to the polls to elect a new regional council. Reason: Italy was still without a Premier, after a month and a half's crisis, and its only hope for a strong government lay in new national elections (now scheduled for next spring). In the Sardinian voting, Rome's politicos were seeking portents...
Much of the new political approach originates from a Jesuit priest close to the Vatican-grey, ascetic Father Riccardo Lombardi, who heads a new organization called Per un Mondo Migliore (For a Better World). To the "Better World" school in the Alban Hills near Rome, priests come from all over Latin America to hear fervent weeks of lecturing on the new policies. Moreover, Father Lombardi recently traveled to Mexico, gave a special course to 100 bishops, including Cardinal Luque. gathered from all Latin America. His student-priests can use the church organization as an ear to the ground that...
...disappeared from the standard repertory (the Met revived it two years ago). Now the endless search for operatic treasure has driven the recordmakers back to Gluck; both Epic and Decca have issued nearly complete versions of the opera (and RCA Victor is recording its own version in Rome...
...Remember." Though the Gold of Dongo has never since been seen, all Italy knows what happened to it: it went to Italy's Communist Party (whose headquarters in Rome is still popularly known as Palazzo Dongo). For more than a decade, in the face of persistent Communist stonewalling, successive Italian governments have been trying to unravel the intricate series of thefts and murders by which the Reds managed to get the treasure out of the hands of the partisans to whose care it was originally entrusted. Nearly two months ago in the marbled Palace of Justice at Padua...
...book, much less forced to restore the Gold of Dongo. Nonetheless, in the process, Italian Communism stood to lose something of infinite value-the carefully fostered myth that no members of the Italian resistance fought the Nazis and Fascists quite so heroically and unselfishly as the Communists. Said Rome's II Messaggero: "This trial is for history...