Word: santas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nuclear Future (Criterion Books; $3.50). Coauthor: Albert L. Latter, theoretical physicist on the staff of Santa Monica's Rand Corp...
...most beautiful bridge in the world," Florentines called it, and they never got over their outrage when, in 1944, the retreating Nazis blew up the Ponte Santa Trinita, along with four other bridges across the Arno. (Only the Ponte Vecchio was spared, because it was considered too fragile to be useful for Allied military vehicles.) Designed...
...month after Santa Trinita's destruction Architect Luigi Bellini surveyed the ruins jutting like stumps from the Arno's muddy waters, vowed, "We shall have a new bridge-where it was, and as it was." A citizens' committee headed by Berenson raised $100,000 abroad, Florentines contributed $30,000, the national government added a final...
...last week Italian Premier Adone Zoli went up to Florence on a ceremonial visit, and the city's church bells tolled all day. Three years abuilding, the Ponte Santa Trinita was formally inaugurated. The head of the statue of Spring was missing (some Florentines claim an Allied soldier took it), but Florentines contentedly examined the swirl of water under the arches and pronounced it just the same. To those who objected that "after all, the bridge is only a full-scale model of the original," Gizdulich replied: "Even though orchestras are not the same as they were then...
...SANTA FE RAILWAY henceforth will serve only one of the three cities in its famed title-Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. Kansas Supreme Court ruled that railroad, which has not served Santa Fe for years, could drop money-losing passenger service to Atchison, Kans. Line will serve Topeka only as alternate stop...