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Letter from Italy
Weaver, William | March 10, 1956 issue

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During the past week or so, one of the main topics of conversations in Rome is the snow—four times in ten days Romans woke up to see palm trees blanketed white. The younger inhabitants of the city had never seen such a sight before, and even some of the older citizens were completely carried away by the beautiful, unheard of spectacle of baroque facades with snow-filled crevices and Bernini statues wearing capes of snow. Grown people joined in hysterical snowball battles in the middle of the Street, and children, who had never seen snowmen, learned how to make them, using ilex leaves to make slanting green eyes.

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LANDSCAPE; CONVERSATION; SNOW; HOLLY; SNOWMEN; ROME
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