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...home town in Sicily last week, Italy's Premier Mario Scelba sent strict word ahead that no fuss was to be made over him. But the folks back home in Caltagirone, where Scelba's aged mother still lives, paid no attention. They greeted their fellow townsman outside the town with a triumphal fanfare of trumpets and drew him through the streets in a ceremonial coach, bright with caparisoned horses and liveried postillions. As the Premier stood on a balcony to address his old neighbors, a blaze of electric lights spelled out the message: "Viva Scelba...
Gain & Loss. Beyond Harvard, he has played senior defense counsel to the academic world, for "if there is anything education does not lack today it is critics." While at Appleton, he was a sponsor of a campaign pamphlet against his fellow townsman Joseph McCarthy. The junior Senator from Wisconsin has apparently never forgotten him. "Harvard's loss," said McCarthy of Pusey's election, "is Wisconsin's gain." Then he proceeded to paint a picture of the university as a "privileged sanctuary for Fifth Amendment Communists ... I cannot conceive of anyone sending their children anywhere where they might...
...left-hand turn toward the southeast and Idlewild's Runway 13, it ran into a patch of drifting cloud which obscured visibility. Its captain, 27-year-old William B. Crockett Jr. of Fort Lauderdale (who was alone in the plane with his 29-year-old copilot and fellow townsman Jack L. Woerderhoff), was directed to pull up, and begin another approach...
Through those nine years, Fain had a gnawing desire to hear more about the last days of his son, who had been named after Fain's old friend and fellow townsman County Judge Harry S. Truman...
Panic swept South Amboy. "Atom bomb," someone yelled and began running. Said a townsman later: "I saw that big pile of smoke just like in the newsreels and I said: 'That bastard Stalin's started it!' " Men & women, carrying children, ran south, away from the blast. Cars loaded with frightened people sped out of town. Mayor Leonard rushed to the city hall, piled into a sound truck and rode about town bellowing reassurance. Finally, the southward rush slowed and stopped...