Word: virgilio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, as Rome basked in bright autumn sunshine, the plight of Italy's pensioners was dramatized in a way that stung the conscience of the nation. Emerging from his office onto the bustling Via Nazionale, mustachioed Leopoldo de Virgilio, 40, head of the Ministry of Defense personnel section, headed home for his midday siesta. As he reached the corner of Via Napoli, a heavy-set man confronted him and asked: "May I have two minutes of your time?" Recognizing Laborer Galvino Lepori, 53, De Virgilio replied in annoyance: "I have nothing to say that...
...from his old mental illness, Lepori decided to retire-only to discover that he had not been on the ministry's permanent rolls and, after 15 years as a "temporary laborer," was not entitled to a pension. He argued his case tnrough the ministry right up to De Virgilio, who had no recourse except to give him a final no. Then, as Rome's Il Messagero said, in the tormented mind of Galvino Lepori "our complex, cold bureaucracy took on flesh and blood in the form of De Virgilio...
...week's end, while Lepori dumbly awaited judgment, other Defense Ministry personnel officers were checking their records to see whether De Virgilio had worked the statutory 19 years, six months and one day. If not, his wife and children, like Lepori, will have no legal right to a pension...
...books, the Dominicans could hope for some assistance. The invasions crushed last month by Trujillo came from Cuba, and Dominican Ambassador to the OAS Virgilio Díaz Ordóñez charged that a new, 3,000-man force was training in Cuba, backed by 25 Venezuelan warplanes. Under terms of the 1947 Rio de Janeiro treaty pledging mutual assistance against aggression, the Dominicans demanded a fact-finding mission...
Last week, as he contemplated licensing still another supermercato over the protests of the Reds and the merchants, Milan's Mayor Virgilio Ferrari said: "It doesn't matter to me that those whom people call supercapitalists are running this business. What matters is that people pay less." (Supermarket prices average about 10% below those in the shops.) From a Milan housewife came even more heartfelt praise. Said she: "I enjoy a trip to the supermarket more than seeing Yul Brynner in the movies...