Word: benito
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when the broken body of Benito Mussolini was finally returned to his widow, Donna Rachele, the brain was missing. Though most of it was given to her a year later by an Italian laboratory, a small piece, about a square centimeter in size, had been taken to Washington for medical study. Last week Donna Rachele told how those last remains were returned. A messenger from the U.S. State Department turned up one day recently with what he said was "something very important." Then he gave her five tiny vials, each containing a bit of tissue, plus a bigger piece...
...Alfa-Romeo that failed to do the job: the car in which Benito Mussolini and his mistress tried, unsuccessfully, to escape Italian partisans...
Alan King, one of the pooh-bahs of show biz, plays the psychiatrist with two alternating expressions. He pops his eyes like the late Benito Mussolini, and he breaks into a slow-burn grin like a pregnant volcano. This gives him wice the comic range of the play...
...posthumous career began poorly enough. The corpse of Benito Mussolini hung heels-up alongside that of his mistress, Clara Petacci, like a pig outside a butcher shop. But last week, with the 20th anniversary of his death, the reputation of the Duce was undergoing a remarkable rehabilitation in Italy...
...turn of the century, storming the European art scene, Dr. Atl talked anarchism in Barcelona cafés, argued with Lenin in Lausanne, published an anticlerical newspaper with a young socialist named Benito Mussolini. When the fire of Mexico's revolution was lit in 1911, Dr. Atl returned home to kindle his country's intellectuals. Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros caught the blaze from him. Dr. Atl became Mexico's Fine Arts Minister, promptly shut down the Fine Arts Academy as too traditional. The plutonic painter, more than anyone, pointed Mexican art toward...