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When 50-year-old Umberto Righetti, a pastor of the Evangelical Church, rented a second-floor apartment in the 15th century baronial palace of Fondi (pop. 19,000), 75 miles south of Rome, nobody told him about the door. In his two-room apartment he conducted Protestant religious services twice a week, and soon had a flock of 500. He started a free Bible school for 70 children, some of whom had been attending the local Roman Catholic parochial school. In heavily Catholic Italy all this was distressing news to the parish priest. Don Pietro Santanto-nio. "Go away, leave...
...white sneakers. "Named in honor of Christopher Holder," the plaque reads, "a member of the Society of Friends in America in the seventeenth century, devout, loyal to duty, patient in suffering." Gargoyles leer down at the spectacle over the cloister arcade and from a phonograph stuck out the second-floor window of four entry the voice of a rock-and-roll singer blares fortissimo...
Orval Faubus seemed to find the Hays efforts simply hilarious; time after time his raucous laughter boomed out of the second-floor study where he was conferring with Hays. For his own part, Brooks Hays could not see the humor of the situation. Said he: "Arkansas does not deserve to be this battleground-no, we surely don't. This should have been fought in a state where there was genuine feeling on the subject of race...
Orval Faubus entered his second-floor study bent double, hands clutching his abdomen. He greeted a visitor perfunctorily, collapsed into a contour chair, groaning in the agony of too much sweet corn and too many sweet potatoes the night before. His wife popped anxiously into the room, carrying a tray; Faubus peered distastefully at the stewed chicken and rice. "Put that rice in a bowl," snapped he, "so I can put some milk on it." But this, protested Alta Faubus, was what the doctor had ordered. "I don't care!" cried Faubus...
Then Hays went to Faubus, spent a quiet hour talking in the book-lined second-floor study of the executive mansion. By this time Faubus was worn thin under the increasing pressures. He agreed to cooperate fully (but not to capitulate). Brooks Hays called Adams and said that a telegram was on its way from Faubus to the President at Newport...