Word: virgin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beaver traps, a rifle and a tomahawk, such buckskin-clothed trappers as Antoine Robidoux (who built the first trading post west of the Rockies' main range), Joseph Reddeford Walker (discoverer of Yosemite Valley) and Old Bill Williams stared down danger and brought a fortune in furs out of virgin streams. For most of them, the yearly rendezvous, a "combined festival and fair" in the wilderness, was their only contact with civilization. There they sold their furs, bought their supplies and spent their hard-earned profits in "roaring, riotous debauch, devoted in about equal measure to lethal whisky, reckless gambling...
...modernistic Villa Sanseverino stands the last privately owned Michelangelo in the world, the Pieta Rondanini.* Every month, dozens of visitors go out to the outskirts of Rome by bus, ring the villa's bell, and ask to see the unfinished, life-sized statue of the dead Christ and Virgin Mary on which the 89-year-old Renaissance master was working when he died. The 72-year-old Countess Ottavia Sanseverino has always let the tourists in, interrupting her meals and muddying her gleaming marble floors, even though one gaping art lover backed into one of her pieces of priceless...
Under Secretary of the Interior. Salary $17,500, expense acct and use of official limousine; excellent oppty with large and well-established org (50,000 employees); early riser preferred: hours 8-4:30. Some travel. Knowledge of geography (esp Alaska and Virgin Islands), mining, fish & game, Indian lore desirable...
...worship a sweet, white virgin's glove...
Those who reverently place wreaths beneath Garibaldi's memorial and those who kneel before the Virgin-many citizens do both-have long lived together in drowsy tolerance. But now, the heirs of Garibaldi are tainted with Marxism, the Catholics are accused of Fascism. The bitter struggle that rends all Italy recently broke out, in miniature, at Fiumicino. It was known as the Clock Fight...