Word: corsica
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Corsica came up on the radar screen of the President's Boeing jet, some 5½ hours out of a refueling stop at Goose Bay, the President's pilot got a discouraging report. Not only was Rome getting the rain promised on his long-range forecast, but the storm was worse than expected. Minutes later Colonel William Draper was cautiously circling Rome's Ciampino Airport. Then, assured of a minimum ceiling, he made his instrument approach, splashed to a smooth landing, and pulled up just twelve minutes behind schedule in front of a cluster of Italian officialdom...
With the decline of such established feuding centers as Corsica, Sicily and Harlan County, Ky., the killingest people on earth today may well be the citizens of Ilocos Sur province (pop. 275,000) in northern Luzon. There, long before dusk, nervous wives set out the evening meal and draw the shutters, for, as the local saying goes, when the sun sets, blood begins to flow. Last year 87 murders were recorded in the province, and no one knew how many others went unreported by Ilocanos who did not want to get involved as witnesses. In Ilocos Sur's capital...
...around the milieu, the circle of hardened characters who run Pigalle. One night at his favorite bar, the Sans-Souci, Bill happened to meet a pretty young prostitute named Dominique. Born in a village near Reims, Dominique had been taken to Paris at 18 by a pimp from Corsica. But after getting into trouble over his other line of business-lewd films-the Corsican had fled Paris. The powers of the milieu had no objection to young Bill's taking over where the Corsican left off. For the next 18 months, as Dominique's "protector," Bill...
Kings go forth with gifts, and for the people of Corsica, the first stop on the exile road, Mohammed brought along a very special one-"as a witness of the sincere friendship which His Majesty entertains for General de Gaulle." Shortly before the royal plane landed, it radioed Bastia airport that aboard the plane was a local boy, Ignace Cacciaguerra. a French army sergeant who had been captured by Moroccan tribesmen two years ago. The King's men negotiated for months to win the sergeant's release from the tribesmen. Summoned hastily, Cacciaguerra's mother...
...captain at 20, and soon earned his rank in an insane bit of primitive amphibious warfare in the West Indies. (Yellow Jack killed most of his comrades.) He lost the sight of his right eye as a result of a wound suffered during the siege of Calvi on Corsica, and his arm storming the fortified town of Tenerife with a force of sailors in longboats...