Word: sicilianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...class reunion dinner, the President and his classmates savored double-thick steaks-one of them specially salted, peppered, garlic-salted, cooked eleven minutes on one side and eight minutes on the other in a charcoal pit-followed by Sicilian pastry, cream-filled and dripping with lime ice. Teary-eyed, the old soldiers chorused their Alma Mater and venerated favorites like The Corps: The Corps! Bareheaded salute it, With eyes up, thanking...
...weeks all Italy had been watching the campaign for a regional legislature which has no direct bearing on the national government. But Premier Mario Scelba's Christian Democrats had declared the Sicilian elections a test of their anti-Communist program, and the Communists had accepted the challenge...
...small center parties (Liberals, Republicans and Social Democrats) is the only possible government in the present Parliament, and that a stable government is essential even if its disagreements result in immobilismo (doing nothing). Fanfani has argued that these splinter parties hobble any effective Christian-Democratic program. In the Sicilian elections, the small parties lost almost half their votes, giving weight to Fanfani's thesis...
...unity is a diminishing gleam in the eyes of thousands of "good Europeans" and one big tangible fact: the Schuman Coal-Steel Community, which pools the coal and steel of France, Germany, Italy and the Benelux nations. Last week the Council of Ministers of the Community met in the Sicilian city of Messina...
Local Gain. Until World War II, Sicily contributed far more to Italy than Italy ever gave back. "They grow fat up north with our money," is an old Sicilian com plaint. But in its postwar autonomy, Res tivo and his colleagues are able to claim, Sicily has got 8,500 new schoolrooms, 3,026 kilometers of sorely needed new roads, 131,000 rooms of new housing, a new water system for 247 communities. Total investment by Rome and the regional government in eight years: about $1.5 billion. Tourist business is booming (helped among other things by the visit to ancient...