Word: calabria
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...Parliament an $800 million "Green Plan" to aid agriculture, as well as a $600 million recovery plan for long-neglected Sardinia. He often goes on tour to hear local complaints and to see what is being accomplished with new government grants-and little escapes his sharp eye. Once in Calabria an overzealous official trucked dairy cattle from one project to another to give his boss the illusion of rapidly spreading herds. Fanfani noted that they were the same cows at each stop, fired him on the spot...
...this season-the largest questions, whether of Catholic theology or of living in the world, that man can ask. The play begins with a dying man sent off to ask questions about a dead one: a cancer-ridden English monsignor at the Vatican journeys to a mountain town in Calabria to serve as devil's advocate in the matter of a possible canonization. He is to investigate-in terms of his role, as critically as possible-the qualifications for sainthood of "Giacomo Nerone,'' an English World War II deserter who, before being executed by the Communists...