Benito Mussolini

Good to be here. Just heard about David Blaine's next stunt: He's going to try and survive 48 consecutive hours in Butch Davis's doghouse.

•Frank Kush, coach of the Baltimore Colts, on why he likes to read biographies of Churchill, Mussolini and Hitler: "What intrigues me about all those guys is how they managed people."

A barefoot Ethiopian named Abebe Bikila, a guard at Haile Selassie's palace and the son of an Abyssinian guerrilla in the 1935-36 war with Mussolini's Italy, lopes up the Via dei Trionfi toward the floodlit Arch of...

Center stage for the XVII Olympiad is the rebuilt 100,000-seat Stadio Olimpico, begun by Mussolini for the war-cancelled 1944 Olympics. It is situated between the slopes of Monte Mario and the Tiber.