Word: benito
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...banquet for a dissolute-looking general (which President Eisenhower objected to as "a lampoon"), left the crowd cold until a label was attached explaining it as "anti-war." Since then, it has been a favorite. Likewise, Peter Blume's surrealistic The Eternal City, in which a bust of Benito Mussolini peers balefully across the Roman Forum, got low marks until it was labeled "antifascist...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Benito Mussolini did not quite make it to the Swiss border with the $60 million he plucked from the Italian treasury as the Allies advanced, but here is a dramatization of how close he came. Starring as // Duce: Nehemiah Persoff...
...side of the Triple Entente (Britain, France and Russia), the victorious Allies awarded Italy the strategic Brenner Pass and a slice of Austrian Alpine territory the size of Connecticut leading up to it. The Italians changed the name of the region to Alto Adige, Italianized town and street names. Benito Mussolini's eager henchmen even substituted "Giovanni" for "Johannes" on tombstones...
Died. Giuseppe Bottai, 63, high-level factotum for Il Duce's regime, early Fascist organizer; after long illness; in Rome. Bottai commanded 8,000 blackshirted militia in the 1922 march on Rome that seized power from the king. For his friend Benito, he was Minister of National Education. Governor of Rome, Civil Governor of Addis Ababa, Minister of Corporations. When things looked black in 1943, Bottai discreetly disappeared, later turned up in the French Foreign Legion...
Farm Revolt. But the upset was also a rebuke by farmers and ranchers-who paid welfarism's costs-to the citified beneficiaries in Montevideo (pop. 900,000). The leader of the farm revolt was Benito Nardone, 52, a radio personality with a big rural following. Years ago, Montevideo-born Nardone, stevedore, union organizer, newsman and backlands traveling salesman, sat in Congress as a Colorado. He quit in disgust when told to confine himself to drawing his pay and keeping his mouth shut. Taking to the air in 1942, gossipy Benito Nardone set out to woo the farmers, got their...