Word: castel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time, two other Greek leaders landed in Italy and were feted with maximum pomp and ceremony. Premier Alexander Papagos and Foreign Minister Stephanos Stephanopoulos were met at the Rome airport by a delegation headed by Italian Premier Giuseppe Pella. That evening, going to a reception in Rome's Castel Sant' Angelo, spectacularly lighted by 1,023 flaming oil pots, Stephanopoulos and Papagos were saluted by guards in 16th-century costume. The party in the famed Borgia apartments atop the ancient pile (classically known as Hadrian's Tomb) was the high point of a four-day visit which...
Most men shrink from death. Tazio Nuvolari spent most of his life racing toward it. Born in the little village of Castel d'Ario, in the province of Mantua, he first challenged death at 13, jumping off his parents' roof with an umbrella for a parachute. Tazio got off with a few bruises...
From his summer palace in Castel Gandolfo, Pope Pius XII announced his "blessing and benediction to employees and members of the Associated Press everywhere . . . because of the important work the Associated Press does...
...Italy, on an inspection tour of U.S. Navy installations, Secretary of the Navy Dan Kimball stopped off at the summer papal palace at Castel Gandolfo, was received with his wife and staff by Pope Pius...
...under the weather with a slight fever and a mild cold, canceled all audiences for the remainder of the week. But by week's end His Holiness felt well enough to appear at a window overlooking the inner courtyard of the papal summer residence at Castel Gandolfo to give his blessings to a crowd of 300 pilgrims...