Word: unites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rome's most modern newspaper plant, the well-oiled whir of the new Czech presses could not drown the hollow clunk of the empty cash register. L'Unità, the free world's biggest Communist newspaper and second biggest daily in Italy (after Milan's conservative Corriere della Sera), was as deep...
Last week L'Unità folded its once-thriving editions in industrial Turin and Genoa, announced that its sole surviving regional edition in Milan will now serve all three cities-a feat comparable to making over a Pittsburgh daily for readers in Philadelphia and Baltimore. Beyond that, the paper was reduced to running a Page One jeremiad by Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti, imploring the faithful to dig deep in their pockets to save L'Unità from "extermination...
...which suffered the heaviest casualties at Waterloo) now becomes one with the Somerset Light Infantry (nicknamed "The Illustrious Garrison" after its defense of Jellalabad in 1842). Two of the best known of the Scottish regiments, the Seaforth Highlanders and the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders must form one unit, find new tartans for their men, new tunes for their pipes...
PLACE DE LA CONCORDE is the triumph of planning produced by a brilliant architect named Jacques Ange Gabriel for his royal client, Louis XV. What Gabriel succeeded in doing was creating a square without surrounding it on four sides with buildings. To accomplish this, he formed a unit by crossing the axis of the Champs-Elysées, leading to Versailles, with a secondary axis delineated by the Rue Royale, which leads to the classic Church of the Madeleine. He marked the boundaries with a moat, placed small buildings in each corner, set an equestrian statue of the King...
...multimillion-dollar project to build Brooklyn's big 2,496-unit Farragut Gardens, since renamed Vandeveer Estates. After convincing the Federal Housing Administration that the housing project would cost $24 million, Builders Morris Kavy, Martin and Louis Benedek and Alexander and Henry Hirsch got a mortgage guarantee for $21.7 million, spent $18.1 million and pocketed all but $500,000 of the remaining $3.6 million as windfall profits. Settling out of court last week, they agreed to pay back $2,000,000. In return, the Government will return control of the project to the owners...