Word: sila
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Called the "Sila Project," it is now under way in Calabria, on the heel of the Italian peninsula. In an eroded hilly region, about 40 miles wide and 100 miles deep, where three rich absentee families owned tens of thousands of acres, mostly idle or undercultivated, hundreds of impoverished peasant families are getting new land and new hope. Last week TIME Correspondent William Rospigliosi saw the reform in progress at Santa Severina, a village near Crotone. His report...