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...windswept, heath-covered hilltops of Sardinia stand the remains of more than 6,000 cunningly contrived towers shaped like truncated cones. Built of squared volcanic rock, without mortar, these fortress towers, called nuraghi, range back to the time of ancient Troy, were in use until the culture of the Sards was finally smothered by Roman legions in the 3rd century B.C. Often fire-blackened on top. they may have served for signal fires, funeral pyres or simply strong points of repair for the fierce, feuding warrior clans. In the rubble at the base of the towers Sardinian archeologists have found...
Since the first of these votive offerings was discovered in the 18th century, more than 400 have been uncovered. The best are now on display at Sardinia's National Museum at Cagliari. Despite their small dimensions, they have dignity and mystery, qualities that made them heavy with totemic power and points of reassurance in a time when minute man moved against a background of threatening and capricious nature...
From House to House. The shift in goals-from mere "malaria control" to complete and quick eradication-was dictated partly by the success of early campaigns in Sardinia, Italy, Greece and Chile, partly by the danger that unless the attack is promptly pushed, the DDT-resistant strains of Anopheles may get out of hand. Abandoning area spraying, the malaria fighters are tackling the huge job of spraying every dwelling in malarial regions. Walls are saturated with DDT as fast as possible; scheduled are at least three more annual sprayings. This way, doctors believe, the cycle of mosquito-man-mosquito renewal...
...Voters. On the island of Sardinia, politicians, protesting "foul" electioneering in a vote on the island, accused their rivals of giving out right-foot shoes with a promise of matching left ones 'in case of victory at the polls...
...offense to democratic usage and the good sense of the Sardinian people," huffed Sardinia's most eminent citizen, ex-Premier Antonio Segni. But on election day more than 60,000 Sardinians, 9% of the electorate, voted for Lauro's Monarchists, giving them six crucial seats on Sardinia's regional council. With Lauro's aid, the Christian Democrats would have a slim but workable majority in the council, a pattern which Lauro himself suggests can be followed nationally. "The new fact," said Milan's Corriere della Sera, "is Achille Lauro...