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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lauro assigned 77 city cars to his cronies for personal use, ordered the city to pay the license fees, taxes and even the repair bills, allowed the cronies to fill up their private cars at city gas pumps. Estimated cost of the largesse: several hundred thousand dollars yearly. ¶ Lauro required every city contractor to kick back up to 10% to his "Welfare and Feast Fund," supposedly for poor Neapolitans, who thought their Christmas packages and spaghetti handouts had come from Lauro's own pocket. ¶Dandified Senator Gaetano Fiorentino, Lauro's No. 1 helper who now drives...
...take anyone who wants to get out," promised Carmelo. And for eight years he did. A good thousand men and women-Yugoslavs or Italians caught on the wrong side by the map makers-owe him their freedom. To fugitives who protested fearfully when he picked up others en route, he replied, "As many as we are, we all go, or nobody goes." To those who tried to pay him (the standard border-running price is $160), Carmelo laughed and said softly, "You'll need it later. Come on, let's go." Once, in the troop-infested area around...
...confiscated what they called the "greatest hoard of looted archaeological treasures ever found in Italy." In the old palace, crowded with pressed butterflies and Victorian lamps, they found 15,000 antique items without a single legal permit, including nine showcases stacked with Etruscan vases, cups, coins, marble statuary. Four thousand pieces were rated "important," some priceless...
Chile's epidemic of Asian influenza last week raised its death toll to almost one for each thousand stricken. On one day alone, some 200 deaths were reported. Funeral homes sold out their coffins, and queues waited in cemeteries with their dead while laborers dug graves. Total deaths by week's end: 600. out of 700,000 cases-a bleak preview of what may happen in the U.S. when the disease arrives this fall (TIME...
...Greek Way appeared, immediately caught the imagination of both scholars and general readers. It contained no musty footnotes, no pedant's bibliography. Edith Hamilton's raw material for her reconstruction of Athens was the literature of Greece itself. Whether describing the great homeward march of the Ten Thousand ("So. always cold and sometimes freezing, always hungry and sometimes starving, and always, always fighting, they held their own"), or the achievement of Aeschylus ("In a man of this heroic temper, a piercing insight into the awful truth of human anguish met supreme poetic power, and tragedy was brought into...