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Bruno Sammartino, called "the Rock", 65 years old now, emigrated in 1947 to reach his father in the steel factories in Pittsburgh, where he started his career as a boxer, moving then to wrestling and was for 14 years world champion. On 8 december at Pizzoferrato a "Bruno Sammartino day".

Vegetable soup, "bastardoni" (dried peppers) and a "mappatella", the food eaten in the Middle Ages by travelling pilgrims: this was the menu at "La casa di Filippo" yesterday, special guests Archbishop Edoardo Menichelli, don Ferdinando Cocco, don Angelo Vizzarri and Archbishop Giuseppe Di Falco.

The Istituto nazionale Tostiano has organized for 18 hours, today, a seminar/concert on the English production of Francesco Paolo Tosti. Special guests singer Denver Martin Smith and pianist Roberto Rupo, in the program songs like "For ever and for ever" and premiere of "The allies march to freedom" composed in 1915.