Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wily Party Secretary Italo Nofri had the brain. But Italo Nofri also had a wife Bruna, whom he called "the prettiest girl in all Subbiano." Despite the fact that her husband and his friend had succeeded in converting a majority of her fellow villagers in the little Apennine town to Communism, Bruna remained an ardent Roman Catholic. She even insisted that their son be sent to study in a Catholic school, and despite his own deep convictions. Italo was proud of the honors the boy won at school...
...frantically hurried out with him. But instead of finding her son in the lonely cottage to which Cerofolino took her, she was set upon by the brawny Communist, stripped of her clothes and photographed naked. "Get that husband of yours back into the party," warned Cerofolino, "or everybody in town will see these pictures...
...loss of his civil rights for 20 years. "None of this," growled ex-Mayor Cerofolino, "would have happened if Nofri had stayed in the party." That night the Communist Party at Subbiano, which had prepared a riotous welcome home for Mayor Cerofolino, went on a rampage around town instead, and stormed the house of the Nofri family. A special squad of carabinieri has been guarding the house ever since. "It's not easy," said ex-Communist Italo Nofri, "but it shows what Communists are really like...
...days, when rugged individualism and a respect for white-skinned authority were the stuff of which empires were made. While still an undergraduate at Cambridge, "Grogs" Grogan earned the envy of Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes by walking the 4,500-mile length of Africa from Cape Town to Cairo "just for the hell of it." "You have done what has been the ambition of every explorer," Rhodes wrote, "and it makes me the more certain that we shall complete the [Cape toCairo] railway,* for surely I am not going to be beaten by the legs of an undergraduate...
...kitchen this year from Westinghouse (which is picking up a $5,000,000 tab for CBS for convention-through-election-night coverage), and a security guard to beat off the hungry. A recording company will offer free facilities to the 1,150 independent radio-TV newsmen for their small-town and foreign-based stations...