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Word: carlos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right thumb in the Spanish Civil War, was a longtime hatchet man for Stalin's secret police. In Mexico in 1940 he had a hand in the organizational work behind the assassination of Leon Trotsky, and, later, in the New York shooting of exiled Italian anti-Communist Carlo Tresca...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIESTE: Don't Shake Our Trees | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

...luck was too good to last. At Monte Carlo last week, Ascari catapulted through a bale of hay and landed in the Mediterranean. This time he was badly cut around the head. Only four days later, though, he was back at the wheel, testing a car on the Monza track. He was a national hero; he seemed to feel Italy expected such perseverance. In a borrowed 3,000-liter Ferrari, Ciccio Ascari, 36, spun into a crash for the last time. He was dead before the ambulance reached the hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lost Luck | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

...composer who has come closest to being America's Verdi or Puccini. Gian-Carlo Menotti. last week took his Saint of Bleecker Street (TIME. Jan. 10) to Milan's great La Scala. Italian-born Composer Menotti, who has lived in the U.S. for 27 years, got a real gala-Scala panning from Italian critics. Wrote Rome's Giornale d'Italia: "There is not an idea, not a melody, not a note which is not either closely or distantly attributable to someone else ... If this is what it means to write opera, let's not talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera Boom | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

...Fable; drama, Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; history, Paul Horgan's Great River, The Rio Grande in North American History; biography, New York Times Washington Correspondent William S. White's The Taft Story; poetry, The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens; music, Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Saint of Blceker Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Advice Taken | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

Italy's Carlo Salvetti reported that his fellow scientists have completed plans for a natural uranium reactor in Milan with a production of 10,000 kw. Recently offered a CPs reactor (used to make radioisotopes) and ten tons of heavy water by the U.S., Italy will probably save its own new uranium reactor for later, give research priority to the U.S. model...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The European Approach | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

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