Word: romes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winner: Daniel Bovet, 50, Swiss-born but now a naturalized Italian. One of the research stars of Rome's Istituto Superiore di Sanità, he is a scientist's scientist who has spent a lifetime in quiet laboratories. Though his discoveries have been the basis of countless medical products-sulfa drugs, antihistamines, muscle relaxants-he has never taken out a patent in his own name or made a penny from the commercial exploitation of his findings...
...exiled anti-Fascist ex-Premier of Italy, Francesco Nitti. "I proposed immediately," says Bovet. "It was a lightning chemical reaction." Since then, with time out for three children, Filomena Bovet-Nitti has helped her husband in all his work. In 1947, Bovet moved from the Pasteur Institute to Rome's Istituto, which was able to offer him better facilities. The husband-wife team's current preoccupation: the chemistry of the brain, especially as it is influenced by mental illness and by drugs such as the ataraxics. For, believes Biochemist Bovet, the key to mental illness lies in chemistry...
...This week the Vatican radio (call letters: HVJ, which have no particular significance) will go on the air with a far stronger voice: a powerful, new transmitting station (cost: about $3,200,000). Located on a 200-acre tract at Santa Maria di Galeria, twelve miles northwest of Rome, the 100-kw. main transmitter, more powerful by 40 kw. than Marconi's, is equipped with 24 Telefunken directional aerials (designed to overcome variations in signal strength caused by fluctuations in the ionosphere). A second, medium-distance transmitter, able to blanket the Mediterranean basin, will replace the short-range broadcaster...
This week, making his longest journey north from Rome since he became Pope, Pius XII visited the new transmitting station, now Vatican territory, and pressed two buttons to start the transmission. Then he spoke the first words to be broadcast: "Hearken, ye people from afar (Isaias 49:1) let all give ear. From the Vatican Radio's new station, above which rises high and victorious the cross, symbol of truth and charity, 'our mouth is open to you' (2 Corinthians...
Gloomy Gusses. Just before the fall of Rome, continues the Wise Guy, "a sexually repressed monk named Augustine wrote a book called The City of God in which he assured the Romans that their adoption of Christianity was not the cause of the downfall of the Empire, and that anyway it did not matter what kind of society they lived in on earth, since their destiny was a City...