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Until Rodolfo Graziani made it a terrifying reality for thousands of conquered Africans, the Graziani family motto - "An enemy forgiven is more dangerous than a thousand foes" - was no more sinister than scores of other Italian family mottoes handed down from the age of feuding dynasties. Soldier Graziani was 32 years old and a loud-voiced, hulking 6 ft. 4 in. when World War I broke out. But though twice wounded and twice decorated, he found himself among Italy's millions of jobless at war's end. When the government called for volunteers to "pacify" Libya, Graziani rejoined...
...populace to the viceregal palace in Addis Ababa, Graziani stood up to address them when a couple of hand grenades bounced in. Graziani fell, crying, "They've killed me." Every Italian who had a weapon began firing into the crowd. In a few minutes there were a thousand dead in the palace grounds. Promiscuous killing, arson and pillaging went on for days. Total dead: 1,600. Even Mussolini protested, but Graziani, whose wounds were superficial, replied: "Mild measures never retained conquered soil." A few months later he was withdrawn from Ethiopia, created hereditary Marquis of Neghelli by King Victor...
...camp authorities put them officially into brigades, but it is more than any brigadier's life is worth to try and get any work out of them. Fights are nearly always settled with knife and hatchet. Every year a large batch of more than a thousand blatnye is shipped off to the camps on the island of Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic Ocean. From these camps there is no return...
Wealthy old General Vien, who runs Le Grand Monde (as well as various hotels, lumber mills and fisheries) docilely offered several thousand of his uniformed bully boys as recruits for the Vietnamese National Army; General Vien himself retired to the quiet family life he leads with his two wives, twelve children, screeching monkeys, a leopard, a tiger and some pet crocodiles. Wife No. 1 got in step with the new morality by starting a campaign against striptease, immoral books and dirty movies...
Radioactive Rumors. Keeping his find to himself, Shepherd began buying leases and options on land in Nowata County and started negotiations to buy from Whitehill Oil Corp. several thousand acres where he had found radioactive filters. But two weeks ago that deal fell through. Reason: Climax Molybdenum Co., one of the nation's biggest uranium producers, bought Whitehill-and rumors started running around Wall Street of a big uranium find. In a declining market (see below), Climax stock scooted up six points, to 63¾. Climax, which already has an active waterflood oil division, insisted that it bought Whitehill...