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...Without water, we wash fewer glasses and that saves energy," argues Restaurateur Adolph Santina. "Not that many people ask for it these days. They are now drinking wine...
...Strange Twinkle." Ostilio and Santina are Christian Democrats. The village mayor, councillors and all the other officials are Communists. They decided to get rid of Ostilio and Santina. A few weeks ago the Communists brought from Modena the official party photographer, Mario Botti. He set up his camera in the room adjoining the registrar's office, drilled a hole through the wall, pierced the portrait so that the camera lens peered through Garibaldi...
After three days of waiting, Photographer Botti got what he had been told to get, or so he said. A click of the camera caused Ostilio to look up. He noticed what he later described as "a strange twinkle in Garibaldi's eye." Ostilio and Santina rushed into the next room, as the photographer and two town councillors fled...
...town councillors delivered their negatives to Communist Mayor Guido Gialdi as "evidence." Gialdi suspended Ostilio and Santina, and forwarded prints of the negatives with a report to the provincial prefect. The prefect, an appointee of Italy's Christian Democratic government, ordered Ostilio and Santina reinstated until a formal hearing could be held. Ostilio and Santina filed a suit against the mayor for "defamation and slander...
Overtime for the Mayor. Campogalliano buzzed. Ostilio, said neighbors, had been beaten with a matterello (rolling pin) by his wife, who greatly outweighs him, and confined to his house for two days. Ostilio and Santina denied any improper relationship. Said Ostilio: "She's just an office colleague." Said Santina of Ostilio: "Among other things, I don't like his mustache." Santina opened a counteroffensive. Said she: "I could tell you a few things about the mayor. He often got me to work overtime in his office, and he has a pair of very long hands indeed...