Word: santo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Havana Riviera and Capri hotels could be built and before the mob could raise the "nut"-the bankroll behind the chips. But by last month ten Havana casinos were going, most of them profitable from the first roll. Running the Sans Souci casino was a Lansky hood, Santo Trafficante Jr.; at several others Lansky was the boss or named the boss...
...self-made, self-assured man born in a rural Luzon slum and schooled in law and economics at Manila's Santo Tomas University, Macapagal (pronounced Mah-cah-pah-gahl) showed himself to be more like Magsaysay than any other candidate in getting through to ordinary Filipino voters. Sweeping 46% of the vote in his upset victory, he emerged as an odds-on favorite for the presidency four years hence...
...Jesuit headquarters in Borgo Santo Spirito near St. Peter's Square, the modern men in wool met in Extraordinary General Congregation, the sixth since Loyola's death, to settle pressing business facing the Society of Jesus, largest and most powerful order in the Roman Catholic Church...
...parish priest of the 12th century church of San Felice, off the Grand Canal, was forced to stop in mid-Mass last spring as cracks suddenly opened across the church nave walls, showering the congregation with plaster. Near by, the floor of world-famed San Marco is sinking, Santo Stefano is developing its own leaning tower, scores of palazzos and villas are becoming increasingly strapiombati (out of plumb...
...Rome, Santo Stefano Rotondo, consecrated in the 5th century and the world's largest church in the round, has been closed for eight years while rain pours through gaps in the roof. The sign on the barred door reads: Attenti alle frane (Watch out for falling stones). ¶ In Milan, Santa Maria delle Grazie (which houses Leonardo da Vinci's recently restored Last Supper) also has a fine cloister with Bramante frescoes, largely ignored and badly damaged by water seeping through walls and ceiling. ¶ In Florence's Santa Croce, Italy's greatest Franciscan church, rain...