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...fresh sea breeze from thousands of windows and rooftops of Trieste. Quick-marching into the Piazza dell' Unità, beplumed Bersaglieri were hard put to it to clear a path through the delirious crowd of 250,000 that shook the vast square with endless roars of "Viva l'Italia! Viva Trieste Italiana!" Thus, after nine postwar years as a "free territory," the citizens of the Adriatic port city of Trieste deliriously greeted their reunion with Italy...
...September, Plaza gathered 1,000 Catholics, most of them Peronistas, to open a "Christian Social Week." They rattled the walls with hymns, cries of "Viva Peron!" and "Viva Eva!" Early in October, Plaza blamed the 1955 church burnings on Masons, not Peronistas. Next day he led Peronistas before a visiting Vatican cardinal to petition the Pope to lift Peron's excommunication...
Some villagers had not seen a priest for years. At tiny Tesciguot, 40 men on mules trotted out to meet Father José Maria López, firing their pistols into the air and shouting, "Viva la Iglesia Católica! Viva Jesucristo!" In mass ceremonies, the padre married 240 couples within three hours, aided by the government's special dispensation of the $12 license fee. Bathing in rivers, living on tortillas and beans, Father Jorge Toruno visited 17 towns, spoke to 30,000 people and married 1,139 couples, two-thirds of whom had never been to confession...
Thus nominated, Quadros went to Rio by train. When morning commuters cheered Viva our next President!" he started to wave, then, with charming sheepishness, scratched his head instead. He conferred with politicians of all parties, including
...Viva 26, "Viva Fidel," and "Viva Castro" are boldly scrawled everywhere, on doors, windows, automobiles, and lampposts. Even if there are no rebel soldiers present, which is seldom the case, the conversation on street corners seldom strays far from the topic of revolutionary movement, as it has not for the past several months. But the subject is different now; in the past the talk was of battles and raids, while now it concerns the latest developments in the slowly evolving democratic government, the trials, and the executions...