Word: sardinia
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...Calabrian emigrants in America at the turn of the century when young, handsome, black-mustachioed Giuseppe Mustlino was first imprisoned. Few soldiers of fortune before or since have become so legendary in so short a time. Producing romantic bandit heroes sometimes seems to be a major industry in Sicily, Sardinia and southern Italy. But bandits, though they make news nearly every week, aren't what they used to be-and Musolino's reputation survives in ballads still sung. A young woodcutter of Aspromonte, a craggy region near the toe of the Italian boot, Musolino, like Robin Hood, turned...
Atherosclerosis is the bugbear. It appears to attack the coronary arteries with especial frequency. And strangely, it is a disease of successful civilization and high living. It is far commoner in the U.S., Britain, Sweden and Denmark than among the poor peasants of Sardinia and southern Italy, the paddyfield workers of China and Japan, or Bantu tribesmen. It is commoner among men than among pre-menopausal women; after the menopause, women gradually become as susceptible as men, though it takes them until age 80 to catch up. Racial origin, body build, smoking habits and the amount of physical activity also...
...diet. He tackles the diet problem from the viewpoint of fat content. The fat in the U.S. diet, he points out, has been going up for 50 years; fats account for as much as 40% of its calories. In Sweden the proportion is 38%. But in Sardinia it is only 22%. The clincher, for Dr. Keys, is to be found among Yemenite Jews who had no coronary disease in their native habitat but have begun to develop it since they migrated to Israel and adopted its high-fat diet. Yet the amiable, blubber-eating Eskimos throw a monkey-wrench into...
...form a government was wealthy 64-year-old Lawyer Antonio Segni, who as Minister of Agriculture in several De Gasperi cabinets was the author of the land reform laws and so dedicated a believer in them that he ordered the expropriation of most of his own estate in Sardinia...
Pierre Mendès-France, the unresting, was headed for conferences with Italian Premier Scelba and Germany's Chancellor Adenauer. It was international fence-mending week. The Italians, who had a list of 72 minor questions to settle with the French (e.g., sea-traffic regulations between Corsica and Sardinia), had offered to journey as usual to Paris, but Mendès overnight made himself something of an Italian hero by going, instead, to Rome...