Word: abruzzi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ITALIAN OIL WELL has been brought in by Petrosud (privately owned by Italy's Montecatini and Gulf Oil Corp.) with oil at 2,200 ft. in the Abruzzi area 85 miles northeast of Rome, first find in the district. The new well is a big victory for private oilmen in their fight against Italy's state-owned A.G.I.P. (TIME, Nov. 29); the state company had previously explored the area for oil and failed to find a drop...
...letters and orders for the panels (price: 5,600 lire, or $9). The Italian government's Health Department has installed some 120 in hospital chapel confessionals. Rome's Pontifical Canadian College has ordered 30. Orders have streamed in from Germany and Switzerland. Said one priest from the Abruzzi mountains: "This gadget is a godsend-especially when one's parishioners, like mine, feast upon onions and garlic...
Gina is cast as a peasant girl of the Abruzzi mountains, a sort of cross between Lady Godiva, the farmer's daughter and a merrily uncommon scold. The butt of some pretty rich barnyard humor as she bounces around the countryside on her donkey, Gina gives as good as she gets. Her ragged dress appears inadequate for keeping the weather out, but it lets in a lot of stares. However, a peep is all the village Toms get. Gina is in love with a local cop (Roberto Risso), and he with her. Police regulations, however, deplore such goings...
Stubborn as Sin. Desio's was the sixth attempt to conquer the "killer mountain," as K-2 is often called. The Duke of the Abruzzi tried and failed in 1909; so did the Duke of Spoleto in 1929. Always before, men were driven back by cold as severe as Everest's, gales that can stop a man's breathing, rock falls that roar like siege guns, flinging boulders the size of trucks...
Death on the Ridge. Professor Desio and his men laid Camp 1 at the foot of the Abruzzi Ridge, a gaunt rib which lances upwards towards the summit of K2. On the fearful Abruzzi, perhaps the longest continuously steep climbing ridge in the world, a man is like a fly on a wall. He must edge himself up a vertical "chimney," 100 feet high; if he grabs too hard at the rock, it crumbles in his hand...